Eutopia : : a Novel of Terrible Optimism
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"Edited and copyedited by Sandra Kasturi"--T.p. verso.
"The year is 1911. In Cold Spring Harbour, New York, the newly formed Eugenics Records Office is sending its agents to catalogue the infirm, the insane, and the criminal - with an eye to a cull, for the betterment of all. Near Cracked Wheel, Montana, a terrible illness leaves Jason Thistledown an orphan, stranded in his dead mother's cabin until the spring thaw shows him the true meaning of devastation - and the barest thread of hope. At the edge of the utopian mill town of Eliada, Idaho, Doctor Andrew Waggoner faces a Klansman's noose and glimpses wonder in the twisting face of the patient known only as Mister Juke. And deep in a mountain lake overlooking that town, something stirs, and thinks, in its way: Things are looking up. Eutopia follows Jason and Andrew as together and alone, they delve into the secrets of Eliada - industrialist Garrison Harper's attempt to incubate a perfect community on the edge of the dark woods and mountains of northern Idaho. What they find reveals the true, terrible cost of perfection - the cruelty of the surgeon's knife - the folly of the cull - and a monstrous pact with beings that use perfection as a weapon, and faith as a trap."--P. [4] of cover.
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PUBLISHED
Toronto : ChiZine Publications, c2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 320 p. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781926851112
1926851110
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Kasturi, Sandra, 1966-
SUBJECTS
Eugenics -- Fiction.
Idaho -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Horror fiction.
Historical fiction.