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As the novel opens, it is 1980.

On the day that John Lennon is shot and killed, Angel Archer visits the houseboat of Edgar Barefoot, a guru, and reflects on the lives of her deceased relatives.

During the sixties, she was married to Jeff Archer, son of the Episcopal Bishop of California Timothy Archer.

She introduced Kirsten Lundborg, a friend, to her father-in law, and the two began an affair.

Kirsten has a son, Bill, from a previous relationship, who has schizophrenia, although he is knowledgeable as an automobile mechanic.

Tim is already being investigated for his gnostic, allegedly heretical views about the Zadokite scrolls, which reproduce some of Jesus Christ's statements about the world, but have been dated to the second century before the birth of Christ.