Description: In the not-too-distant future, national identity cards are mandatory, and America has become obsessed with intelligence-gathering. With precision and compassion, Raban captures a peculiar period in modern history.
Review Quotes:
"As atmospheric with vague menace as a Hitchcock thriller." --Michael Dirda, New York Review of Books
"Scarily beautiful . . . . [Raban is] a gifted writer who explores the human condition with tenderness, empathy and rueful wit."
--The Washington Post
"A timely disquisition on the fragility of truth and identity in the information age." --Bloomberg News
"Raban is using fiction to explore the most important issues of our day and doing so at the highest artistic level." --Oregonian
"Heart-thumping dread permeates this creepy, stunning book." --Tucson Citizen
"Raban is a wonderful and cerebral stylist, a master of arresting syntactical inversions with an incisive view of our contemporary moment." --Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Mesmerizing. . . . Sharp and riveting. . . . A masterful job." --Newsday