Harrow

Khristen's mother believes she was marked for greatness as a baby when she died for a moment and then came back to life, but Khristen's true destiny is far stranger and more complex. After Khristen's boarding school closes its doors and she finds that her mother has disappeared, she ranges across the dead landscape and washes up at a 'resort' on the shores of a mysterious, putrid lake the elderly residents there call 'Big Girl'. In a rotting honeycomb of rooms, these old ones plot actions to punish corporations and people they consider culpable in the destruction of the final scraps of nature's beauty. What will Khristen and Heffrey, the precocious ten-year-old boy she meets there, learn from this seditious band, this army of the aged and ill, determined to refresh a plundered earth through violence? Rivetingly strange and delivered with Williams' searing, deadpan wit, 'Harrow' is a tale of paradise lost and the reasons to try and recover something of it.