Gods of Heavenly Punishment, The: A Novel

One summer night in prewar Japan, eleven-year-old Billy Reynolds takes snapshots at his parents’ dinner party. That same evening his father Anton—a prominent American architect—begins a torrid affair with the wife of his master carpenter. A world away in New York, Cameron Richards rides a Ferris wheel with his sweetheart and dreams about flying a plane. These three men will all draw together to shape the fate of a young girl caught in the midst of one of World War II’s most horrific events—the 1945 firebombing of Tokyo. “A page-turner thanks to its high-stakes adventure, torrid love affairs and characters so real they seem to follow you around. . . . Gripping.” — , “Sweeping. . . . [A] harrowing novel of destruction and creation.” — , starred review “Expansive. . . . Bursting with characters and locales. . . . Painful, authentic . . . and exquisite.” —