During her investigation, she becomes convinced that the Joyous Congregation has something to do with the rumbling. After head scientist Carlos gives her a secret assignment to investigate a rumbling in the desert, Nilanjana meets Darryl Ramirez, a member of the Joyous Congregation of the Smiling God, and asks him out on a date. Nilanjana Sikdar has the difficult job of being a scientist in Night Vale. Nilanjana and Darryl must search for common ground between their very different world views as they are faced with the Congregation's darkest and most terrible secret.įink and Cranor's thought-provoking second novel tied in to the paranormal podcast Welcome to Night Vale (also the title of the first book) examines how religion and science work in a town that doesn't make sense.

Caught between her beliefs in the ultimate power of science and her growing attraction to Darryl, she begins to suspect the Congregation is planning a ritual that could threaten the lives of everyone in town. This investigation leads her to the Joyous Congregation of the Smiling God, and to Darryl, one of its most committed members. But all of that is put into question when Carlos gives her a special assignment investigating a mysterious rumbling in the desert wasteland outside of town.

Working for Carlos, the town's top scientist, she relies on fact and logic as her guiding principles. Nilanjana Sikdar is an outsider to the town of Night Vale. From the authors of the New York Times bestselling novel Welcome to Night Vale and the #1 podcast of the same name, comes a powerful new novel about two young people finding their place in the world, and the terrifying, toothy power of the Smiling God.

It devours by joseph fink