"Gothic drama meets a dystopian thriller with jaw-dropping twists; this is a gorgeously written novel of ideas that somehow manages to be as wise as it is addictive." 
        Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette

"Effortless to read and yet thought-provoking long after I put it down. A debut novel that is equal parts entertainment and invention."
       Charles Yu, author of Interior Chinatown

"A Gothic novel with a flourish of the speculative, a tale so gripping it's hard to believe this is a debut... concerned with the great, perhaps unanswerable question of what it is that makes us human."
       Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind