Earth 7

An exhilarating, wildly inventive tour de force of love, humanity and the end of the world as we know it. Two women, one raised in near solitude in a research pod in the depths of the ocean and one a luxury-resort bartender who may or may not be a robot, fall in love, cross deserts, gaze at the stars - and try not only to hold onto one another but together, possibly, salvage some trace of planet Earth. Heartbreaking, mind-expanding, soaring with beauty,  Earth 7 is at once a love letter to the world and a portrait of its slow disappearance. It's about love and grief, microbiology and astrophysics, robots and planet Mars, and humanity in all its greatness, absurdity-and distress. Welding the deeply human to the thrillingly strange, fizzing with intelligence and profoundly moving, it is the novel we need right now, and for all times.

Deb Olin Unferth is the author of seven books, including- Barn 8-and Wait Till You See Me Dance. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and three Pushcart Prizes, and was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her work has appeared in- Granta, Harper's,- McSweeney's-and-the- Paris Review.