The Carp Castle

A band of misfits boards an airship to search for utopia, in this novel by the author of The Balloonist , a National Book Award finalist: “A delight” (Philip Pullman, author of The Amber Spyglass ).   An unemployed American metaphysician, a perpetually ill English nurse, a guilt-ridden German captain—they and a handful of others are about to board an airship called The League of Nations . Under the seductive spell of Moira, a mix of mystic, cult leader, and prophet, these haunted men and br