The 45th Parallel - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

At eighty-two, Clarice Vishnekova has one final mission: make peace with the past and leave the world better than she found it.

From her secluded estate in western Maine, the former wartime intelligence operative uses her considerable fortune to support an unconventional circle of scientists, researchers, and protégés pursuing ideas years ahead of their time. Their work explores a changing climate, the possibilities of quantum science, and even the limits of the human lifespan.

But Clarice is pursuing another legacy as well: the completion and performance of the great classical work she has spent a lifetime preparing to create.

For a woman increasingly aware that time is finite, both ambitions are deeply personal. Clarice has spent decades carrying the consequences of choices made during her secret service in World War II. Now the past is resurfacing through old relationships, unanswered questions, and connections that may reach into the work being done around her.

As scientific promise collides with commercial ambition and long-buried secrets, Clarice must decide how much of the future can—or should—be shaped by one person's vision.

Narrated across dual timelines and through multiple character-centered viewpoints, The 45th Parallel moves between wartime Europe and the opening years of the twenty-first century in Maine, Michigan, and Costa Rica. It is a sweeping literary speculative novel about mystery and memory, scientific possibility, mortality, forgiveness, and the legacy one life leaves behind.

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