In Ascension -

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist ninvestigating an unfathomable deep vent in the ocean floor, leading her on a njourney that will encompass the full trajectory of the cosmos and the passage nof a single human life Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an nescape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the nundersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the nglobe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic nocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of the earth's nfirst life forms - what she instead finds calls into question everything we nknow about our own beginnings. nHer discovery leads Leigh to the Mojave desert and an ambitious new space nagency. Drawn deeper into the agency's work, she learns that the Atlantic ntrench is only one of several related phenomena from across the world, each npiece linking up to suggest a pattern beyond human understanding. Leigh knows nthat to continue working with the agency will mean leaving behind her declining nmother and her younger sister, and faces an impossible choice: to remain with nher family, or to embark on a journey across the breadth of the cosmos. nExploring the natural world with the wonder and reverence we usually reserve nfor the stars, In Ascension is a compassionate, deeply inquisitive nepic that reaches outward to confront the greatest questions of existence, nlooks inward to illuminate the smallest details of the human heart, and shows nhow - no matter how far away we might be and how much we have lost hope - we nwill always attempt to return to the people and places we call home. nLONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist ninvestigating an unfathomable deep vent in the ocean floor, leading her on a njourney that will encompass the full trajectory of the cosmos and the passage nof a single human life Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an nescape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the nundersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, traveling the nglobe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic nocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of the earth's nfirst life forms - what sh