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Tesque, the angel assigned to watch over the vacated Garden of Eden, believing himself to have been abandoned by God and suffering from his isolation and loneliness, meditates on the topics of divinely-permitted evil, divine hiddenness, divine deception, and obedience as he wars with himself over the decision of whether to rebel against God and leave his post. The noetic effects of sin, self-deception, moral luck, creaturely flourishing, the nature of divine love, and misanthropy are all on display in this novel on the difficulties of satisfying the two great commandments to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and to love thy neighbor as thyself.