Author: Janelle Brown

Description:

Set in the mid-1990s, this NATIONAL BESTSELLER follows Jane, a teenage girl raised in isolation by her father in a remote Montana cabin. Her world consists of woodstove heat, a vegetable garden, and nineteenth-century philosophy books instead of school. Her father, elusive about their past, claims they once lived in the Bay Area and that Jane’s mother died in a car crash—an event that led him to raise Jane off the grid in a Waldenesque utopia.

As Jane matures, she begins to question her confined life. When she discovers that her loyalty to her father has made her complicit in a terrible crime, she escapes to San Francisco—the only place she knows to search for answers about her past and her mother’s death. Amid the birth of the internet age, Jane’s journey becomes a gripping blend of coming-of-age and psychological suspense, as described by People, and “absorbing and well-crafted,” according to The Washington Post.

From New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Things and Watch Me Disappear, Janelle Brown delivers a powerful story about identity, family, and the tension between nature and technology, innocence and knowledge, and the truths we must face to shape our future.