{"product_id":"other-valley","title":"Other Valley","description":"\u003cb\u003e*Soon to be a TV series*\u003cbr\u003e Jimmy Fallon's Book Club Top Four Pick and a PBS Book Club Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFor fans of Kazuo Ishiguro and Emily St. John Mandel, this \"mind-bending take on time travel\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) is about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future, and a young girl who spots two elderly visitors from across the border: the grieving parents of the boy she loves.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Sixteen-year-old Odile vies for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position, she'll decide who may cross her town's heavily guarded borders. To the east, the town is twenty years ahead in time. To the west, it's twenty years behind. The towns repeat in an endless sequence across the wilderness.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When Odile recognizes two visitors she wasn't supposed to see, she realizes that the parents of her friend Edme have been escorted across the border from the future, on a mourning tour, to view their son while he's still alive in Odile's present.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Edme--who is brilliant, funny, and the only person to truly know Odile--is going to die. Sworn to secrecy to preserve the timeline, Odile now becomes the Conseil's top candidate. Yet she finds herself drawing closer to the doomed boy, jeopardizing her entire future.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Other Valley\u003c\/i\u003e is \"thought-provoking exploration of ethics, power, love, and time travel\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Other Valley","offer_id":46011654406341,"sku":null,"price":44.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-6680-1548-3.jpg?v=1774906898","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/other-valley","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}