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This "novel of contagion and collapse is also the story of loves unlikely survival in the most hostile conditions (Karen Russell, bestselling author of Swamplandia!)from the National Book Awardnominated author of The Book of Aron.In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11yearold Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of longburied and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up back into their village, and from there Shepard's harrowing and deeply moving story follows Aleq, one of the few survivors of the initial outbreak, through his identification and radical isolation as the likely index patient.While he shoulders both a crushing guilt for what he may have done and the hopes of a world looking for answers, we also meet two Epidemic Intelligence Service investigators dispatched from the CDCJeannine, an epidemiologist and daughter of Algerian immigrants, and Danice, an M.D. and lab wonk. As they attempt to head off the cataclysm, Jeanninemoving from the Greeland hospital overwhelmed with the first patients to a Level 4 highsecurity facility in the Rocky Mountainsdoes what she can to sustain Aleq.Both a chamber piece of multiple intimate perspectives and a more omniscient glimpse into the megastructures (political, cultural, and biological) that inform such a disaster, the novel reminds us of the crucial bonds that form in the midst of catastrophe, as a child and several hypereducated adults learn what it means to provide adequate support for those they love. In the process, they celebrate the precious worlds they might lose, and help to shape others that may survive.
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