A teenage girl breaks free from her father’s international of isolation in this exhilarating novel of family, identity, and the electricity we ought to shape our personal destinies—from the New York Times bestselling creator of Pretty Things and Watch Me Disappear
The first issue you have to apprehend is that my father became my whole world.
Growing up in an isolated cabin in Montana within the mid-Nineteen Nineties, Jane knows simplest the world that she and her father live the woodstove that heats their domestic, the vegetable garden where they are attempting to eke out a subsistence existence, the books of nineteenth-century philosophy that her father gives her to read in lieu of going to highschool.
Her father is elusive approximately their pasts, giving Jane little beyond the facts that they as soon as lived within the Bay Area and that her mom died in a car coincidence, the crash propelling him to move Jane off the grid to raise her in a Thoreau-like utopia.
As Jane will become a youngster she starts pushing in opposition to the limits of her restricted world. She begs to accompany her father on his occasional trips far from the cabin.
But when Jane realizes that her devotion to her father has made her an partner to a awful crime, she flees Montana to the best location she knows to look for solutions approximately her mysterious past, and her mother’s San Francisco.
It is a town in the midst of a seismic trade, wherein her quest to understand herself will pressure her to reckon with each the opportunities and the perils of the fledgling Internet, and wherein she can come to question the whole lot she values.