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A grieving father uses a neuroscience experiment to connect his son's mind to the natural world, and the boundary between human consciousness and nature dissolves.
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Wild Dark Shore
Dominic Salt and his three children are the last caretakers of Shearwater, a remote island near Antarctica that houses a vault of the world's seeds, and as the seas rise around them, a mysterious woman washes up on the shore.
A Death in the Family
In Knoxville in 1915 a young family's ordinary evening ends with a late phone call about the father, and the novel follows a six-year-old boy and the adults around him through the days that follow.
The Light Pirate
Wanda is born during a hurricane in a small Florida town, and as she grows up the water keeps rising and the state, and her family, start to come apart.
Gilead
An ageing Iowa pastor writes a letter to his young son, reflecting on faith, regret, and the luminous strangeness of ordinary life.
The Echo Maker
After a truck crash on a Nebraska road, a young man wakes believing his sister is an impostor, and a famous neurologist arrives as sandhill cranes gather on the Platte River.
Playground
Four strangers on a Pacific island confront their pasts and each other, and the ocean becomes a stage for Powers' latest meditation on human connection and ecological grief.
The Man with the Compound Eyes
As a vast island of rubbish crashes into the east coast of Taiwan, Alice, a grieving academic, meets Atile'i, a young man from a mythical island who arrived on it.
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
Weeks after his wife's sudden death, a Ted Hughes scholar in a London flat is visited by Crow, who says he will stay with him and his two young sons until they no longer need him.
Telephone
A paleobiologist whose daughter is slowly losing her mind to a rare disease finds a plea for help sewn into a jacket he bought online and drives into the desert to answer it.
Solar Storms
Angela Jensen, seventeen, scarred and raised in foster homes, comes back to the boundary waters between Minnesota and Canada to find the women of her family, as a dam project threatens their land.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Stephen Kumalo, an elderly Zulu priest in the hills of Natal, travels to Johannesburg to look for his sister, who has stopped writing, and his son Absalom, who went to the city and never came back.
The Road
A father and his young son push a shopping cart south through an ash-covered America after an unnamed catastrophe, scavenging what food is left and hiding from bands of cannibals.