Fan Casting Cat’s Cradle

At the opening of the book, the narrator, an everyman named John (but calling himself Jonah), describes a time when he was planning to write a book about what important Americans did on the day Hiroshima was bombed. While researching this topic, John becomes involved with the children of the late Felix Hoenikker—Frank, Newton, and Angela Hoenikker. John travels to Ilium, New York, to interview the Hoenikker children and others for his book.