The Humanity Project

by Thompson, Jean

• ISBN13: 9780399158711
• ISBN10: 0399158715
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-04-23
• Publisher: Blue Rider Press

Summary

New York Timesbestselling author of The Year We Left HomeJean Thompson delivers a dazzling new novel to her beloved fans-set against the backdrop of current events and cultural calamity, The Humanity Projectfollows an eclectic cast of characters whose fates are drawn together by one woman's unusual financial experiment.

Author Biography

Jean Thompson is the author of three previous novels, The Year We Left Home, City Boy (a National Book Award finalist), and Wide Blue Yonder; and three story collections. She lives in Urbana, Illinois.

Excerpts

In an effort at building a more honest and authentic relationship, from time to time Art smoked marijuana with his teenage daughter. He hadn’t begun out of any such hopeful motives; Linnea had simply come home and caught him lighting up in the kitchen.

“Busted!” she said happily. 

“Oh well, hah.” Art was already a little messed over. His brain had that Swiss cheese feel. “I was just, hah.” He opened the refrigerator and closed it again. 

“You gonna share?”

What else could he do but hand the pipe to her? He watched Linnea fire up the lighter and play it over the pipe bowl. “Careful. This is pretty strong stuff.”

She spoke with difficulty through the smoke she was holding in. “S’not bad.”

Art sat down at the kitchen table. He shook his head and its insides joggled. “This is just . . . Honey, I don’t know about this.”

“Your eyes are all red. You are wrecked.”

He tried sounding stern. “What do you think your mother would say?” 

“She’d say she was right about both of us.”