Small World

Four modern families aboard a passenger train hurtle into the night.<br><br>One hundred and seventy years earlier their forebearers make their way in a young nation built on grand promises.<br><br>Each family follows their own path, only to find that their destinies are linked inextricably, the culmination of five generations of shared history.<br><br>Jonathan Evison’s <i>Small World </i>is a novel that speaks to the present moment, a grand adventure that explores the American experiment in its most human and intimate aspects, a novel that asks whether America has made good on those early promises.  <br><br>Humming with heart and adventure, and love and hope and ideas, <i>Small World</i> delivers the thrill of great storytelling straight through to its deeply satisfying conclusion.