Winner of the National Book Award – an “eerie, brilliant, and touching” (New York Times) family drama about mass culture and the numbing effects of technology, from the author of The SilenceJack Gladney teaches Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America where his colleagues include New York expatriates who want to immerse themselves in "American magic and dread." Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspr