01920cam a2200349 i 4500 556031361 TxAuBib 20220510120000.0 201013s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020045854 9780593184127 hardcover 0593184122 hardcover 40030957775 (OCoLC)1200832373 TxAuBib rda Evison, Jonathan. Small world / Jonathan Evison. First edition. New York : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2022] ©2022. 466 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "From the New York Times bestselling author of West of Here, a novel that chronicles 170 years of American nation-building from numerous points of view across place and time, and explores the Great American Experiment from its formative days to the present moment and asks whether or not our nation has made good on its promises"-- Provided by publisher. Set against such iconic backdrops as the California gold rush, the development of the transcontinental railroad, and a speeding train of modern-day strangers forced together by fate, the characters connect in the most intriguing and meaningful ways. As almost two centuries of American nation-building are viewed from numerous points of view across place and time, the novel asks on the most human, intimate scale whether it is truly possible to meet, and survive, the choices posed-- and forced-- by the age. -- adapted from jacket. 20220510. Railroad accidents Fiction. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Immigrants Fiction. Epic fiction.