Four modern families aboard a passenger train hurtle into the night.
One hundred and seventy years earlier their forebearers make their way
in a young nation built on grand promises.
Each family follows their own path, only to find that their destinies
are linked inextricably, the culmination of five generations of shared
history.
Jonathan Evison's Small World is a novel that speaks to the present
moment, a grand adventure that explores the American experiment in its
most human and intimate aspects, a novel that asks whether America has
made good on those early promises.
Humming with heart and adventure, and love and hope and ideas, Small
World delivers the thrill of great storytelling straight through to its
deeply satisfying conclusion.