What Kind of Paradise A Novel

National Bestseller and New York Times Bestseller

From the acclaimed author of Pretty Things and Watch Me Disappear, Janelle Brown delivers a mesmerizing psychological thriller that will keep you turning pages late into the night.

Jane’s world has always been small: a remote Montana cabin, her enigmatic father, and shelves of dusty philosophy books. No school. No internet. No questions about the past. But when she discovers that her carefully constructed life is built on a foundation of lies—and that she may be complicit in her father’s dark secrets—everything shatters.

Fleeing to mid-1990s San Francisco, Jane searches for the truth about her mother’s death and her own identity in a city electrified by the birth of the internet age. What she uncovers will force her to question everything she thought she knew about love, loyalty, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive.

The Washington Post calls it “absorbing and well-crafted,” while People praises it as “a mesmerizing blend of coming-of-age and psychological suspense.” This is a novel about the wilderness we escape from and the wilderness we carry within us—a stunning exploration of how we become who we are.

Perfect for readers who love atmospheric literary thrillers with heart, What Kind of Paradise asks: When your entire world is a lie, where do you find the truth?

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