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SHORTLISTED FOR THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD
FINALIST FOR THE OHIOANA BOOK AWARD IN FICTION
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Allegra Hydes seductive first novel tackles the big stuff of climate change and the more intimate matter of heartbreak with grace Indeed Eleutheria bravely braids these together the story of a lost soul moving through the world were rapidly losing Rumaan Alam author of Leave the World Behind
Willa Marks has spent her whole life choosing hope She chooses hope over her parents paranoid conspiracy theories over her deadend job over the rising ocean levels And when she meets Sylvia Gill renowned Harvard professor she feels shes found the justification of that hope Sylvia is the womaninblackthe only person smart and sharp enough to compel the world to action But when Sylvia betrays her Willa fears she has lost hope forever
And then she finds a book in Sylvias library a guide to fighting climate change called Living the Solution Inspired by its message and with nothing to lose Willa flies to the island of Eleutheria in the Bahamas to join the authorand his group of ecowarriors at Camp Hope Upon arrival things are not what she expected The groupsleader author Roy Adams is missing and the compounds public launch is delayed With time running out Willa will stop at nothing to realize Camp Hopes missionbut at what cost
A VINTAGE ORIGINAL
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