Under Story by Chloe Benjamin a A GMA Book Club Pick

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists comes an intimate yet epic love story—a sweeping odyssey of scientific discovery that lingers long after the final page.

“We wake up to tomorrow, never yesterday.”

At the end of the world, biologist Laurel Salter is hiding from everything she’s ever known. Six days a week, she washes dishes at McMurdo Station, an isolated research base in Antarctica. What she doesn’t tell anyone: before she arrived, she was a renowned young scientist with a promising career, a husband, and a family.

But even here, she can’t outrun her past.

When a strange light appears across the ice—drawing a group of physicists to McMurdo—her former husband, Eli, isn’t far behind. Laurel becomes captivated by the Arc: its surreal glow, the way it seems almost alive. She’s convinced it leads down a rabbit hole into a world they can barely imagine. Could it turn back the clock and let them live their story a second time?

A breathless page-turner and a love letter to our planet, Under Story grapples with the great questions of our time: human hubris, the precarity of the natural world, and the mysterious webs of consciousness that bind us. It’s a modern epic of science and soul, of bravery and redemption.

This one’s for the readers who love a story that makes them think and feel in equal measure. Curl up with it on a foggy afternoon—the kind we know well here by the cove—and let it carry you somewhere unexpected.

A stunning new hardcover release, waiting on our shelves to be discovered.

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