Due Preparations for the Plague

Janette Turner Hospital's electrifying novel chronicles the lives of two strangers connected by the tragic loss of parents in a hijacked Paris-New York flight. As an adult, Samantha, one of the children set free by the terrorists, has become obsessed with the hijacking. Under the guise of her senior thesis, she pulls Lowell, the son of a victim, into a web of terror, death, and betrayal that he has spent his adult life trying to forget. Hospital's electrifying novel is a tightly woven web of familial and national histories, of sexual and political passions, and of individual and national complicities in the age of terrorism. She probes with astonishing acuity the murky worlds of espionage and intelligence gathering, and the painful meaning of survival.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 07/01/2004
ISBN: 9780393325737
Pages: 430
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.50w x 1.05d

Review Citations: New York Times 08/29/2004 pg. 20