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Early one morning in New York City, Will Heller, a sixteen-year-old paranoid schizophrenic, gets on an uptown B train alone. Like most people he knows, Will believes the world is being destroyed by climate change; unlike most people, he's convinced he holds the key to the planet's salvation. To cool down the world, he has to cool down his own overheating body: to cool down his body, he has to find one willing girl. And he already has someone in mind. Whiting Award-winning author John Wray tells the story of Will's fantastic odyssey in search of Emily Wallace -- and of his mother Violet's desperate attempts to locate her son before psychosis claims him completely. It is Ali Lateef, a missing-persons specialist, who gradually comes to discover that Violet-beautiful, enigmatic, and as profoundly at odds with the world as her son-harbors a secret that he will discover at his own peril.

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