Author |
Shelby, Ashley |
Year |
2017 |
First published |
2017 |
Publisher |
New York: Picador |
Number of pages |
358 |
Edition |
First US Hardcover |
ISBN |
9781250112828 |
Keywords |
literary or mainstream, FMS Library Book, female scientist, climate change, habitat at risk, earth sciences |
Abstract
Do you have digestion problems due to stress? Do you have problems with authority?
How many alcoholic drinks do you consume a week? Would you rather be a florist or
a truck driver? These are some of the questions that determine if you have what it
takes to survive at South Pole Station, a place with an average
temperature of -54°F and no sunlight for six months a year. Cooper
Gosling has just answered five hundred of them. Her results indicate she
is abnormal enough for Polar life. Cooper’s not sure if this is
an achievement, but she knows she has nothing to lose. Unmoored by a
recent family tragedy, she’s adrift at thirty and―despite her early
promise as a painter―on the verge of sinking her career. So she accepts
her place in the National Science Foundation’s Artists & Writers
Program and flees to Antarctica, where she encounters a group of misfits
motivated by desires as ambiguous as her own. The only thing the Polies
have in common is the conviction that they don’t belong anywhere else.
Then a fringe scientist arrives, claiming climate change is a hoax. His
presence will rattle this already-imbalanced community, bringing Cooper
and the Polies to the center of a global controversy and threatening the
ancient ice chip they call home.(Amazon)