To Paradise
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In an alternate 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where personal freedom is promised, yet a young man from a prominent family finds himself resisting a suitable match, drawn instead to a penniless music teacher. Decades later, in 1993 Manhattan, a young Hawaiian man lives with his wealthy older partner, concealing a painful past and the truth about his father. By 2093, in a world fractured by plague and under authoritarian rule, a scientist's troubled granddaughter navigates life without him, seeking answers about her husband's vanishing.
These three narratives form an ingenious symphony, weaving together recurring themes and motifs—a Washington Square townhouse, the high cost of medical treatments, the stark contrasts of wealth and poverty, the dynamics of power, and the very definitions of family and nation. Across centuries and altered realities, characters grapple with the fundamental human experiences of fear, love, shame, need, and loneliness, all in their search for an earthly paradise that may not exist.
Publication date
January 11, 2022
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4.2/5
Print length
720
Language
English
Publisher
Doubleday
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