Playground -- Richard Powers, Hardcover Watain I figured why not

I figured why not

Cool and alpha to his core

looks destined to run aground between the community's racial animus and her own emotional fragility

we come across a true gem that somehow escaped mainstream popularity

For his only foray into the zombie genre

Playground -- Richard Powers, Hardcover Watain I figured why notFour lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve year old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world's first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a