"It's the mid-2000s, and twenty-four-year-old Jane is miserable. Overworked, buried in debt, she senses the future she wanted slipping away--while the world around her veers badly off course. She wants to find something better but has no idea where to start. After abandoning everything in a burst of rebellion, Jane goes on the road and meets Barry, a charismatic recluse living on an isolated homestead near New York's Canadian border. For years, Barry has chased an unlikely obsession: to build a pair of wings humans can fly in. He's convinced his invention will spark a revolution, delivering us from the degradation of capitalism and the climate chaos that awaits us. Jane is captivated by Barry's extreme vision, even as his experiments become more dangerous. But she's equally drawn to Ike, Barry's gentle, thoughtful son, who knows no other reality--and who only wants to keep his father safe"--Page 4 of cover.
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