 Throughout, he also intersperses meaningful as well as sarcastic passages and sentiments from an odd religious scripture known as "The Books of Bokonon".The events of the novel evidently occur before the narrator was converted to his current religion, Bokononism.While researching for his upcoming book, the narrator travels to Ilium, New York, the hometown of the late Felix Hoenikker, a co-creator of the atomic bomb and Nobel laureate physicist, to interview Hoenikker's children, coworkers, and other acquaintances.