{"product_id":"9781668015476-the-other-valley-a-novel","title":"Howard Scott Alexander - The Other Valley A Novel - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: * Soon to be a TV series* Jimmy Fallon's Book Club Top Four Pick and a PBS Book Club Pick For fans of Kazuo Ishiguro and Emily St. John Mandel this mind - bending take on time travel (The New York Times) is about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future and a young girl who spots two elderly visitors from across the border: the grieving parents of the boy she loves. Sixteen - year - old Odile vies for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position she ll decide who may cross her town's heavily guarded borders. To the east the town is twenty years ahead in time. To the west it's twenty years behind. The towns repeat in an endless sequence across the wilderness. When Odile recognizes two visitors she wasn t supposed to see she realizes that the parents of her friend Edme have been escorted across the border from the future on a mourning tour to view their son while he's still alive in Odile's present. Edme who is brilliant funny and the only person to truly know Odile is going to die. Sworn to secrecy to preserve the timeline Odile now becomes the Conseil's top candidate. Yet she finds herself drawing closer to the doomed boy jeopardizing her entire future. The Other Valley is thought - provoking exploration of ethics power love and time travel (Kirkus Reviews).\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: The Other Valley A Novel\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Howard Scott Alexander\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Atria Books\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781668015476\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 304 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 2\/27\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Modern \u0026amp; Contemporary Fiction","brand":"Howard Scott Alexander","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49622899589425,"sku":"IN-G-9781668015476","price":22.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781668015476.jpg?v=1724730165","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781668015476-the-other-valley-a-novel","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}