The New RepublicShriver is an incisive social satirist with a clear grip on the ironies of our contemporary age . . . [Her] take on journalism and international politics is wry, insightful and just over the top enough to be fun. Los Angeles Times New York Times bestselling author Lionel Shriver probes the mystery of charisma in a razor sharp novel that teases out the intimate relationship between terrorism and cults of personality, explores what makes certain people

and facing the inevitable

the wake of the American decision to use the atomic bomb to bring the war in

George Eliot

and the things he lost

\" and the vast federal overreach of Title IX

“A taut

Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne

has been the butt of many jokes

they have eaten meals together and slept in the same bed in an increasingly uncomfortable silence that has become

Effie suspects her father has sent Luella to the House of Mercy and hatches a plan to get herself committed to save her sister

It’s not luck that has transformed the San Antonio Spurs into a formidable force—it’s science

“An intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction