Glamorous Phoebe secretly feels guilt about her mother's death and is drawn into an extremist cult by a charismatic former student at her university, disappearing after the cult's first terrorist attack. Prior to this she and misfit scholarship student Will had fallen in love, and Will sets out to find her. 'R.O. Kwon is the real deal' Lauren Grof 'In dazzlingly acrobatic prose, R. O. Kwon explores the lines between faith and fanaticism, passion and violence, the rational and the unknowable' CELESTE NG
