The conception of sphinx: A different kind of Alaska fiction

Tyrone Slothrop visits Anchorage, AK ca. 9-11, just before the towers fell.Greg Waters is a quiet guy. But boy, oh boy, does he have a lot going on underneath that surface. Join him and the Immortals:Brace--Doomed charismaticJP Bill--Too brilliant for his own goodBulldog--Aching for his own destructionLolly--Suicide in female formTogether, or more accurately, far apart, the childhood quincunx of friends encounters the seductively perfect Amanda Waters, and her mysterious mentor, Raymond Purine, leader of what may be the most dangerous cult America has ever known.