We Went to the Woods

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They went off the grid. Their secrets didn't. For readers of The Secret History and The Immortalists comes a novel about the allure-and dangers-of disconnecting. "A sharp, spellbinding cautionary tale, one that reminds us that even those who do remember the past might also wind up repeating it."-NPR (Best Books of the Year) Certain that society is on the verge of economic and environmental collapse, five disillusioned twenty-somethings make a bold decision: They gather in upstate New York to transform an abandoned farm, once the site of a turn-of-the-century socialist commune, into an idyllic self-sustaining compound called the Homestead. Mack, a publicly disgraced grad-school dropout, believes it's her calling to write their story. She immediately falls in love with all four friends, seduced by their charisma and grand plans-and deeply attracted to their secrets. But it proves difficult for Mack to uncover the truth about their nightly disappearances and complicated loyalties, especially since she is ...