The Fountain: A Novel

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A Belletrist Book Club Pick * A Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick * A Most Anticipated Book from the Boston Globe, Barnes Noble, Literary Hub, BookRiot, Goodreads, and Town Country "Casey Scieszka's debut novel is absolutely delicious, like Tuck Everlasting for grown-ups. The premise is so good-an immortal woman's search for the fountain of youth-that the writing, crisp and funny, feels like an extra treat. An excellent debut."-Emma Straub, bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow "A small-town mystery with a dash of historical fiction and romance, this book is perfect for readers of V. E. Schwab's The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue." -Booklist A propulsive and deeply moving novel about eternity and mortality that asks what it would mean to live forever. Vera Van Valkenburgh hasn't been home in one hundred and eighty-eight years. But now Vera, forever twenty-six and able to heal from any wound, has returned to the Catskills. Whatever made her family immortal happened here, and if she can uncover it, maybe she can reverse it. After nearly two centuries-an endless sequence of unnoticed, meaningless lives and a soul-shaking incident in the desert-she longs to be released. Posing as a newly arrived forest ranger, she quickly blends into the upstate community and learns of something curious and disturbing. A mysterious, well-funded company is snapping up local property, no matter how high the asking price. But when her brother, a fellow immortal shows up, accompanied by a woman whos

• Printing: later
• Binding: Hardcover

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