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“A twisty, sharp coming-of-age story for our strange techno-utopian times.”—Rachel Khong, author of Real Americans
The first thing you have to understand is that my father was my entire world.
Growing up in an isolated cabin in Montana in the mid-1990s, Jane knows only the world that she and her father live in: the woodstove that heats their home, the vegetable garden where they try to eke out a subsistence, the books of nineteenth-century philosophy that her father gives her to read in lieu of going to school. Her father is elusive about their pasts, giving Jane little beyond the facts that they once lived in the Bay Area and that her mother died in a car accident, the crash propelling him to move Jane off the grid to raise her in a Waldenesque utopia.
As Jane becomes a teenager she starts pushing against the boundaries of her restricted world. She begs to accompany her father on his occasional trips away from the cabin. But when Jane realizes that her devotion to her father has made her an accomplice to a horrific crime, she flees Montana to the only place she knows to look for answers about her mysterious past, and her mother’s death: San Francisco. It is a city in the midst of a seismic change, where her quest to understand herself will force her to reckon with both the possibilities and the perils of the fledgling internet, and where she will come to question everything she values.
In this sweeping, suspenseful novel from bestselling author Janelle Brown, we see a young woman on a quest to understand how we come to know ourselves. It is a bold and unforgettable story about parents and children; nature and technology; innocence and knowledge; the losses of our past and our dreams for the future.
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April 11, 2025
Jane has spent most of her life with her widowed father in a remote Montana cabin. Secluded and with only old philosophy books for education, Jane, now a teenager, knows little about the outside world of her era, the mid-1990s. The rural lifestyle that her father perceives as utopian feels to Jane more like prison. As her socially withdrawn father becomes increasingly paranoid and unstable, Jane begins to question their isolated existence and the secrets surrounding her mother's mysterious death. Determined to uncover the truth, Jane looks for clues using the very technology her father abhors and follows a trail of breadcrumbs to San Francisco, putting both herself and her father at risk. There, she is thrust into a world unlike anything she's ever known, where the rise of the internet, shifting cultural landscapes, and new relationships cause her to reevaluate everything about her past, her identity, and what it truly means to be free. VERDICT Brown's (I'll Be You) latest is part coming-of-age story, part psychological thriller, and part social commentary. The engaging characters and fast-paced plot take readers on a journey from the isolated mountains of Montana to the energetic tech boom of 1990s Silicon Valley.--Erin Dagenais
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