Four lives converging on Makatea, a French Polynesian island strip-mined for phosphate decades ago and now down to eighty residents who are being asked to vote on whether a consortium can build the first floating city offshore. There’s a tech billionaire who made his fortune on a social platform and is dying; his estranged college friend, now a Black chess prodigy turned novelist; an oceanographer in her nineties who taught the world to love the sea; and a Makatean woman who came home.
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