Under Story by Chloe Benjamin — from the New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists, an intimate yet epic love story and a sweeping odyssey of scientific discovery.
At the edge of the world, biologist Laurel Salter is hiding from everything she has ever known. Ten hours a day, six days a week, she works as a dishwasher at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. She tells no one that she once had a promising career, a husband, and a family.
Then a strange light appears across the ice. Physicists flock to the base. Among them is Eli, her former husband. The phenomenon — they call it the Arc — seems almost alive. Laurel becomes convinced it is a way into another world: a chance to turn back the clock and live their story a second time.
Can she persuade him to risk everything to repair what hangs between them?
A breathless page-turner and a love letter to the planet, Under Story asks what we owe one another — and the earth itself — when grief, science, and love collide.
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