Tether: A Novel

From the acclaimed author of The Unpassing, a tender and meticulously observed novel, following three generations of women learning to navigate a near-future California.

Kina lives in a hamlet sealed off from the pollutants and allergens that plague the outside world, subsisting on a regulated supply of meal bars and working a tedious administrative job. She can no longer ignore what’s happening to her partner, Daniel, who is succumbing to a mysterious illness that renders him catatonic for ...