Playground: A Novel
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This multi-layered novel about life in, out of and around the ocean riffs on ideas of playgrounds and paradise; computer games and AI; adventure, exploration, colonization and more.
New York Times Bestseller
Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize
Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize
As Seen on CBS Saturday Morning * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * One of the Ten Best Books of the Year, according to the Washington Post and AARP * A Time Must-Read Book of the Year * An NPR "Books We Love" Pick * An Economist, New Yorker, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
"Prepare to be awed.... [A]stonishing." -Ron Charles, Washington Post
The magisterial novel from the ...

























