A Better World

A Better World A Novel

First Atria Books hardcover edition

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Publisher's Synopsis

"You'll be safe here. That's what the greasy tour guide tells the Farmer-Bowens when they visit Plymouth Valley, a walled-off company town with clean air, pantries that never go empty, and blue-ribbon schools. On a very trial basis, the company offers to hire Linda Farmer's husband, a numbers genius, and relocate her whole family to this bucolic paradise for the .0001%. Though Linda will have to sacrifice her medical career back home, the family jumps at the opportunity. They'd be crazy not to take it. With the outside world literally falling apart, this might be the Farmer-Bowens last chance. But fitting in takes work. The pampered locals distrust outsiders, cruelly snubbing Linda, Russell, and their teen twins. And the residents fervently adhere to a group of customs and beliefs called Hollow...but what exactly is Hollow? It's Linda who brokers acceptance by volunteering her medical skills to the most powerful people in town with thei

Book information

ISBN: 9781982191061
Publisher: Atria Books
Imprint: Atria Books
Pub date:
Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition
DEWEY: 813.6
DEWEY edition: 23/eng/20231020
Language: English
Number of pages: 356
Weight: 522g
Height: 231mm
Width: 155mm
Spine width: 28mm