South Pole Station

A New York TimesBook Review Editors Choice A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year Hudson Booksellers Book of the Year One of the New York Posts Best Books of the Summer One of The Millionss Most Anticipated Books of the Year IndieNext Pick A Time Magazine What to Read Now Selection A wry novel set at the edge of the earth about the courage it takes to band together, even as everything around you falls apart Unmoored by a recent family tragedy, Cooper Gosling is adrift at thirty and on the verge of ruining her career. So when the opportunity arises to join the National Science Foundations Artists & Writers Program in Antarctica, she jumps at the chanceand finds herself in the company of others who are just abnormal enough for Polar life, a group of eccentrics motivated by desires as ambiguous as her own. When they are joined by a fringe scientist who claims climate change is a hoax, the Polies already-imbalanced community is rattled, bringing them to the center of a global controversy and threatening the ancient ice chip they call home.