In the 1980s, an obscure graduate student was the foremost scholar on a newly discovered gnostic tractate entitled Thunder, Perfect Mind. Previously, only one Harvard professor had significantly researched the work, but his untimely death left her alone in the field. On her own within the university stacks and the Egyptian intertestamental past, she struggles to break the code of a 2,000 year old buried writing, which in turn leads her down unexpected rabbit holes of stolen children, the FBI, and four generations of dead sisters. And with each revelation, she uncovers her own buried crimes. Unable to cope, she turns to the Thunder, Perfect Mind for answers. This is a not a story of one woman's forgiveness, but rather the story of a more unsettling idea: that forgiveness itself may be unnecessary.