A chilling descent into a secret collective attempting to escape death through cryonic freezing. It combines DeLillo's typical mix of introspection and creeping dread with something else—a menacing sense of the absurd borrowed from Kafka. Coupled with a sarcastic sense of humor, it offers a dive into the murky boundary between life and death that is both amusing and alarming.

Don DeLillo, the author of numerous novels including Point Omega, Falling Man, White Noise, and Libra, has received many awards in America and abroad, including the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his lifetime achievement, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his novel Underworld. In 2010, he received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award.