O Sinners! A Novel

Nicole Cuffy

eBook - 2025

In this “engrossing” (Los Angeles Times) novel that sweeps from present-day California to the Vietnam War and back, a grieving young man is drawn into the orbit of a charismatic cult leader who forces him to reconsider why people give up control—and what it takes, ultimately, to find one’s place in the world.FINALIST FOR THE WESTPOINT PRIZE FOR LITERATURE • A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE SEASON’S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS: Time, Rolling Stone, Vulture, Men’s Health, WNYC, Electric Lit, Feminist Book Club, Lit Hub“A gorgeously written literary excavation of belonging and belief.”—Emma Donoghue, The Boston Globe After the death of his father, a young journalist named Faruq Zaidi takes the opportunity to embed him...self in a mysterious cult based in the California redwoods and known as “the nameless,” whose strikingly attractive members adhere to... more