A very weird but fascinating read. The story concerns the last surviving member of a strange religious cult that sends all but its eldest children out into the world to work as menial laborers, who then send back their wages to make the cult rich. When the scam is discovered, all members of the cult – both in the colony and working out in the world – kill themselves, except for the narrator. His notoriety as the last survivor of the cult takes him on an incredible journey as a celebrity evangelist, with his twin brother pursuing him, and aided by a girl who knows everything that’s going to happen to him and everybody else. The book swept me along fairly well until the very end, when things pretty much fell apart. But up until then, it was well worth the trip.