THE POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR

Rafi and Todd are two polar opposites at an elite high school where they bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game.

It sets them up for life: Rafi will get lost in literature, while Todd’s work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough. Elsewhere, Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs; Ina Aroita grows up in naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. All of these people meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, marked for humanity’s next great adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out into the open sea.

• Hardback

• 400 pages