First published 1999
Tender Branson, the last surviving member of the Creedish death cult, seizes control of a Boeing 747 to record his life story before the plane crashes. Raised in repressive isolation, Tender finds sudden fame as a media messiah after his fellow cultists commit mass suicide. But as his cult notoriety grows, Tender spirals into madness, desperate to make sense of his bizarre, tragic past.
Genres: fiction, satire, contemporary, psychological-thriller
Vibes: dark, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
306 pages · Hardcover · W. W. Norton & Company
Content warnings: mental-illness, suicide