A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and “an accomplished psychological thriller… absolutely chilling” (Village Voice), from the Pulitzer Prize - winning author of The Goldfinch.
Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.
A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment.… Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.
- The New York Times