VICTIMS (Little House on the Bowery) - Softcover

"Victims may by the most exciting first novel I've read in a decade or more. This is a brilliant, haunting, and, strangest of all, very funny novel."

Like the infamous Heaven's Gate cult whose mass suicide gained world media attention in the 1990s, the Overcomers are a small group of lost souls guided by the teachings of a charismatic leader, Martin Jones. They go about their lives preparing for the cosmic event that will signal the end of their time on earth and their struggles to reconcile their faith in Jones's teachings with the emotional ups and downs of their relationships, jobs, and interactions with the natural world form the subject of this exquisitely written and highly original novel. Based on extensive research into the rhetoric of religious cults, VICTIMS is a novel of ideas in the tradition of modernist works like Magic Mountain and The Plague. Using an episodic narrative, an elegantly direct style, and a quirky, sympathetic group of characters Jeppesen has written a novel with a philosophical bravura rarely seen in the work of contemporary American writers.