{"product_id":"eleutheria-9780593315248","title":"Eleutheria","description":"\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD\u003cbr\u003eFINALIST FOR THE OHIOANA BOOK AWARD IN FICTION\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORKER \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Allegra Hyde's seductive first novel tackles the big stuff of climate change and the more intimate matter of heartbreak with grace. Indeed, \u003ci\u003eEleutheria\u003c\/i\u003e bravely braids these together, the story of a lost soul moving through the world we're rapidly losing.\" --Rumaan Alam, author of \u003ci\u003eLeave the World Behind\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWilla Marks has spent her whole life choosing hope. She chooses hope over her parents' paranoid conspiracy theories, over her dead-end job, over the rising ocean levels. And when she meets Sylvia Gill, renowned Harvard professor, she feels she's found the justification of that hope. Sylvia is the woman-in-black: the only person smart and sharp enough to compel the world to action. But when Sylvia betrays her, Willa fears she has lost hope forever. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd then she finds a book in Sylvia's library: a guide to fighting climate change called \u003ci\u003eLiving the Solution\u003c\/i\u003e. Inspired by its message and with nothing to lose, Willa flies to the island of Eleutheria in the Bahamas to join the author and his group of ecowarriors at Camp Hope. Upon arrival, things are not what she expected. The group's leader, author Roy Adams, is missing, and the compound's public launch is delayed. With time running out, Willa will stop at nothing to realize Camp Hope's mission--but at what cost? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA VINTAGE ORIGINAL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAllegra Hyde's debut story collection, \u003ci\u003eOf This New World, \u003c\/i\u003e won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award through the Iowa Short Fiction Award Series. Her stories and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Pushcart Prize\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest of the Net\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Best Small Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Travel Writing. \u003c\/i\u003eOriginally from New Hampshire, she currently lives in Ohio and teaches at Oberlin College.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50520582488338,"sku":"9780593315248","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3ed8006e-1760-4abe-a6e0-8b11d2a2b2f4.jpg?v=1731086981","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/eleutheria-9780593315248","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}