First published 2022
In 1980, salvage diver Bobby Western discovers a crashed plane with nine bodies, but the pilot's bag and the tenth passenger are missing. Shadowed by men with badges and the ghost of his father, Bobby is caught up in dark machinations. Meanwhile, his sister Alicia, a gifted mathematician diagnosed with schizophrenia, grieves for Bobby as she contemplates the nature of madness and her own fractured reality. At the heart of this sprawling tale is the profound bond between the siblings as they struggle to reconcile the darkness that surrounds them.
Genres: 20th-century, adventure, mystery, crime, contemporary, 21st-century
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, emotional, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: dark-protagonist, grief, mental-illness, sibling-relationship
Setting: United States
Period: 1980
190 pages · Hardcover · Knopf
Content warnings: mental-illness