Episcript for the Cadaverous Brethren of Purity is a slathering of testimonial DNA, twisted helices breeding continental mosques, oracular spiders, slave revolts and world breakers, suicide saints and subdermal sleeper agents, cage organisms, a bordello of sizzling human grease, deepfake Mahdis, switcheroo civil wars, red herring dynasties, eunuchs who divide by nuclear fission, gravitational odalisques deranging client destinies, caliphal clowns and slap-takers, budget warlords and fiscal meat grinders, mold spore bureaucracies, a museum of schismatic heads.

Arreshy Young's debut novel is a baroque masterwork of contemporary American fiction.