O Sinners! by Nicole Cuffy - A Cult, A War, A Reckoning
Nicole Cuffy’s O Sinners! is not just a novel—it’s an experience of unraveling. Part investigative thriller, part philosophical meditation, and part haunting war chronicle, it is a genre-defying literary mystery wrapped in lyrical prose and unsettling beauty. Centered on Faruq Zaidi, a grief-wracked journalist navigating the grief of losing his father, the book explores the allure of cults, the seduction of charisma, and the complexity of trauma through the haunting lens of a community that calls itself “the nameless.” Told in three intersecting narratives—Faruq’s present-day immersion into the cult, Odo’s past as a Black soldier in the Vietnam War, and […]
