Noel

Our reckless and uninhibited contamination of the planet’s fi ve oceans has now reached dangerous levels, a starting point for Ms. Irving’s terrifying presentiments described in Noel. Starting off in a maritime disaster from hell itself, radiation fl oods into the already corrupted water of the Trash Vortex in the northern Pacifi c Ocean. It had been the fi nal ingredient missing in that horrible soup, triggering a very dangerous effect: another kind of intelligent life was born out there. Humankind’s inadvertent answer to God’s only begotten son, this millennial Frankenstein then wreaks havoc on the natural world. While the surviving characters from Thanksgiving valiantly try to save the world, a biblical apocalypse closes in on them. On all of us, and the healing embrace of any savior may never be returned.