LITERARY FICTION

Creation Lake

By Rachel Kushner

An American operative calling herself Sadie Smith infiltrates a radical farming community in rural France. Hired to manipulate the activists, she treats each relationship as a tool—until the ideas of their elusive mentor, Bruno Lacombe, begin to unsettle her certainty.

Combining espionage, dark humour, and philosophical questions, the novel explores power, belief, and the competing stories people tell about humanity’s past and future.