James Patrick Thomas’ voicemail ends with “I wish you peace.”

It’s the kind of sentiment you’d expect to hear when reaching out to a man whose life has been, in many ways, a decades long pilgrimage for peace. There’s the physical 6,700-mile-long pilgrimage he took by foot through nine countries in an attempt to end the nuclear arms race, and the figurative quest to discover the impacts of the nuclear contamination poisoning Eastern Washington. There’s also the journey he’s undertaken within his faith, and himself, as a Jesuit.

In his debut book “Atomic Pilgrim,” a memoir of Thomas’ many pilgrimages, he details his experience and lessons learned on those different journeys, while exploring their many intersections and ties to his own upbringing in the Inland Northwest. Local readers will

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