Small World: A Novel by Jonathan Evison

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.

REVIEWS

“A modern classic. The book is a vast yet intimate tale about the American dream, and the people for whom the vision is yet unfulfilled.”—The Christian Science Monitor

“Riveting . . . Small World feels like a reminder that not a single one of us got here alone. We have inherited strengths from the individual tales of our ancestors, but we are still deeply dependent upon each other.”—Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

“The novel is easy to love in part because it deals in generosity and hope. . . . Small World is ambitious, showing our interconnectedness across time, place, and cultures.”—The New York Times Book Review

PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback
Publisher: Dutton
ISBN: 978-0593184134
Pages: 480