{"product_id":"9780142180907","title":"The Humanity Project: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Year We Left Home\u003c\/i\u003e, a dazzling new novel hailed as an “instantly addictive...tale of yearning, paradox, and hope.”—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e After surviving a horrific shooting at her high school, fifteen-year-old Linnea is packed off to live with her estranged father, Art, in California. Art, not much more than a child himself, doesn’t quite understand how or why he has suddenly become responsible for raising a sullen—and probably deeply damaged—adolescent girl. And although Linnea has little interest in her father, she becomes fascinated by the eccentric cast of characters surrounding him: Conner, a local handyman whose own home life is a war zone, and Christie, her neighbor, who has just been given the reins to a bizarrely named charity fund, the Humanity Project. As the Fund gains traction and Linnea begins to heal, the Humanity Project begs the question: Can you indeed pay someone to be good? At what price?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThompson proves herself at the height of her powers in \u003ci\u003eThe Humanity Project,\u003c\/i\u003e crafting emotionally suspenseful and thoroughly entertaining characters, in which we inevitably see ourselves. Set against the backdrop of current events and cultural calamity, it is at once a multifaceted ensemble drama and a deftly observant story of our twenty-first-century society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022563229936,"sku":"9780142180907","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780142180907_p0.jpg?v=1769911079","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780142180907","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}