SHORTLISTED FOR THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARDFINALIST FOR THE OHIOANA BOOK AWARD IN
FICTIONA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Allegra Hyde’s seductive first novel tackles the big
stuff of climate change and the more intimate matter of heartbreak with grace. Indeed
Eleutheria bravely braids these together the story of a lost soul moving through the world
we’re rapidly losing.” —Rumaan Alam author of Leave the World Behind Willa 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. And then she finds a book in
Sylvia's library: a guide to fighting climate change called Living the Solution. 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? A VINTAGE ORIGINAL
