Fiction. REQUIEM is a darkly comic novel about what it means to be human in a culture obsessed with sex and death. With a structure based loosely on the Mass for the Dead, this ambitious novel includes letters-to-the-editor, an e-mail correspondence with a porn queen, scenes from the lives of classical musicians, and retellings of biblical stories. In an America where everyone-including a well-known NPR interviewer-keeps a secret website, and where a modern Prophet can only weep at the stories he hears, REQUIEM reveals our past, present, and future with wit, sadness, and complete honesty.