Description
After an environmental apocalypse, a teenager named Khristen is left to navigate a world where the man-made has value and the natural world is nearly erased. When her failing school closes and her mother vanishes, Khristen drifts into a decaying lakeside “resort” run by elderly survivors who call the place “Big Girl,” where they plot to punish those they blame for the planet’s ruin. There, Khristen meets Jeffrey, a precocious ten-year-old whose presence complicates the residents’ grim plans and forces both of them to confront what it means to salvage the authentic. With Joy Williams’s signature deadpan wit and uncanny, lyrical imagination, this strange, riveting novel explores grief, moral rage, and the stubborn human desire to rebuild meaning—even when the world offers only rot, risk, and ruin.
Available Editions
paperback
Vintage
Published Sep 14, 2021
223 pages
ISBN: 9780525657576
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Details
First Published
2021
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Harrow by Joy Williams.