This exquisite tour de force explores the dark roots of polygamy and its modern-day fruit in a renegade cult not recognized by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (aka the Mormon church). Ebershoff brilliantly blends a haunting fictional narrative by Ann Eliza Young, the real-life 19th rebel wife of Mormon leader Brigham Young.

After a devastating tsunami destroys all they know, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important to their lives.

Binky is a housecat with a purpose: to build a rocket ship, explore outer space, and protect his humans from alien domination.