Due Preparations for the Plague

<p>Janette Turner Hospital's electrifying novel chronicles the lives of two strangers connected by the tragic loss of parents in a hijacked Paris-New York flight. As an adult Samantha one of the children set free by the terrorists has become obsessed with the hijacking. Under the guise of her senior thesis she pulls Lowell the son of a victim into a web of terror death and betrayal that he has spent his adult life trying to forget. Hospital's electrifying novel is a tightly woven web of familial and national histories of sexual and political passions and of individual and national complicities in the age of terrorism. She probes with astonishing acuity the murky worlds of espionage and intelligence gathering and the painful meaning of survival.</p>