Into Captivity They Will Go, Noah Milligan
Into Captivity They Will Go, Noah Milligan
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Into Captivity They Will Go

Author: Noah Milligan

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Unabridged: 10 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2019

Synopsis

Set in rural Oklahoma, Into Captivity They Will Go tells the story of Caleb Gunter, a boy whose mother has convinced him he is the second coming of Jesus Christ and that together they are destined to lead the chosen into the Kingdom of Heaven. Believing the Seven Seals detailed in Revelation have been opened, he and his mother flee their home to join a tongue-speaking evangelical church and to prepare for the end of the world. But after tragedy ensues, Caleb must rebuild his life without the only support he has ever known—his mother and the church. An exploration of familial bonds and extremist faith, this is a whirlwind bildungsroman that reveals the fragility of a child's identity. It is at once a study of guilt and redemption and a book of how shattered trust can lay the foundation for an entire life.

About Noah Milligan

Born and raised in the Bible Belt, Noah Milligan is the author of the novel An Elegant Theory and the short story collection Five Hundred Poor. His work has been named a semifinalist for the Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize and a finalist for Foreword Review's 2016 Book of the Year. His short fiction has recently been published in Cowboy Jamboree, Orson's Review, Windmill: The Hofstra Journal of Literature and Art, and elsewhere. He lives in Edmond, Oklahoma, with his wife and two children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Aimee Dars on October 02, 2019

Initially, I was interested in Into Captivity They Will Goby Noah Milligan because it’s set in Oklahoma, my home state. The book centers on Caleb Gunter, a preteen who is told by his mother Evelyn that the world is ending, and he is the second coming of Jesus. Even in the buckle of the bible belt,......more

Goodreads review by Niki on October 08, 2019

This novel isn't half as deep as it'd like to be. Every other review is impressed and keeps talking about "the consequences of religious extremism" and how it's "sympathetic" and "compelling". I personally had a completely different experience: I thought the book was deeply boring. About 60% of the b......more

Goodreads review by Jodi on July 27, 2019

For the first few years of Caleb Gunter's life, he was a normal boy in 1990s small-town Oklahoma, with normal aptitudes and interests. Then his mother told him he was the second coming of Jesus Christ, and the world was about to end, as laid out in Revelations in the Bible. The prologue explains how......more

Goodreads review by Molly on September 13, 2019

Noah Milligan is an excellent writer, but more importantly than that, he's an amazingly sympathetic and fair writer. In a story like this, about Christian extremism in modern rural America, it'd be easy to go into ironic dark parody or grim horror, but Milligan skirts both of those and shows all the......more

Goodreads review by Betty on March 02, 2025

Just the right amount of casual writing mixed with existentialism!......more

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