num_pages: 320
description: The year is 1911.In Cold Spring Harbour New York the newly formed Eugenics Records Office is sending its agents to catalogue the infirm the insane and the criminalwith an eye to a cull for the betterment of all.Near Cracked Wheel Montana a terrible illness leaves Jason Thistledown an orphan stranded in his dead mothers cabin until the spring thaw shows him the true meaning of devastationand the barest thread of hope.At the edge of the utopian mill town of Eliada Idaho Doctor Andrew Waggoner faces a Klansmans noose and glimpses wonder in the twisting face of the patient known only as Mister Juke.And deep in a mountain lake overlooking that town something stirs and thinks in its way: Things are looking up.Eutopia follows Jason and Andrew as together and alone they delve into the secrets of Eliadaindustrialist Garrison Harper's attempt to incubate a perfect community on the edge of the dark woods and mountains of northern Idaho. What they find reveals the true terrible cost of perfectionthe cruelty of the surgeon's knifethe folly of the culland a monstrous pact with beings that use perfection as a weapon and faith as a trap.
language: English
title: Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism
publisher: ChiZine Publications