Camp Zero’s dark twists and bright turns left me breathless, hopeful, furious, and emboldened until the very end.” - NANCY JOOYOUN KIM, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Story of Mina Lee

“In an equally tantalizing and terrifying tour de force, Michelle Min Sterling boldly remixes the realities of our present world, the danger we are in, and the fates we have settled for through a mesmerizing story of loyalty, deception, and ultimately love. “Camp Zero is a sui generis novel, boldly imagined, intricately designed, and convincingly detailed. Though set in the near future, it resonates with a palpable sense of reality and with the deep insights into some dimensions of the human condition, such as migrations, the burden of the past, environmental destruction, gender inequality, self-recreation. Page by page, the prose shines with subtle verbal artistry. This is groundbreaking literary work.” - HA JIN, National Book Award-winning author of Waiting With extraordinary world-building, captivating characters, and sharp commentary on climate change, technology, colonialism, capitalism, and the patriarchy, Michelle Min Sterling’s remarkable debut delivers its big ideas with suspense, endlessly surprising twists, and abundant heart.” -JESSAMINE CHAN, New York Times bestselling author of The School for Good Mothers “ Camp Zero is the thrilling, urgent feminist climate fiction that the world needs. Through skillfully braided perspectives, including those of a young professor longing to escape his wealthy family and an all-woman military research unit struggling for survival at a climate station, the fate of Camp Zero’s inhabitants reaches a stunning crescendo.Ītmospheric, fiercely original, and utterly gripping, Camp Zero is an electrifying page-turner and a masterful exploration of who and what will survive in a warming world, and how falling in love and building community can be the most daring acts of all. Rose quickly secures the trust of her target, only to discover that everyone has a hidden agenda, and nothing is as it seems. In return, she’ll receive a home for her climate-displaced Korean immigrant mother and herself. A clever and determined young woman code-named Rose is offered a chance to join the Blooms, a group hired to entertain the men in camp-but her real mission is to secretly monitor the mercurial architect in charge. In remote northern Canada, a team led by a visionary American architect is breaking ground on a building project called Camp Zero, intended to be the beginning of a new way of life. In a near-future northern settlement, the fates of a young woman, a professor, and a mysterious collective of researchers collide in this mesmerizing and transportive debut that “delivers its big ideas with suspense, endlessly surprising twists, and abundant heart” (Jessamine Chan, New York Times bestselling author). A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick

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