Such Nice People covers a five-day period during which 17-year-old Tom, second child and first son of a family who collectively have every problem in vogue in YA literature, carries out instructions from SOLA, a phosphorescent ruler, to kill his family with the exception of older sister Kit who is to be Duchess in the new order…. Kit, a doctoral candidate in psychology, lives away from home but is due to arrive for the holidays. She is in therapy to work through the residue of various love affairs. Sara, a younger sister, is fat. Steven and Max, Tom's young brothers, follow him one evening to a shed and see his solitary sexual writhings that involve his penis and a plunger. They hear him speak to the air in a voice that is not his. On the appointed day. Tom takes a gun from close family friends and calmly...