ISBN: 0735213909 9780735213906

Category: Fiction / Coming of Age

Page count: 240

<b><b>Now a National Bestseller</b><br><br>"<b>Religion, politics, and love collide in this slim but powerful novel reminiscent of Donna Tartt's <i>The Secret History</i>, with menace and mystery lurking in every corner." --<i>People Magazine</i></b><br><br><b>"The most buzzed-about debut of the summer, as it should be...unusual and enticing ... <i>The Incendiaries </i>arrives at precisely the right moment." --<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br><br><b>"Radiant...A dark, absorbing story of how first love can be as intoxicating and dangerous as religious fundamentalism." --<i>New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br><b>A powerful, darkly glittering novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into a cult's acts of terrorism.</b></b><br><br>Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet in their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn't tell anyone she blames herself for her mother's recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe. <br><br>Grieving and guilt-ridden, Phoebe is drawn into a secretive cult founded by a charismatic former student with an enigmatic past. When the group commits a violent act in the name of faith, Will finds himself struggling to confront a new version of the fanaticism he's worked so hard to escape. Haunting and intense, <i>The Incendiaries</i> is a fractured love story that explores what can befall those who lose what they love most.