Eradication

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From acclaimed author Jonathan Miles (“a writer so virtuosic that readers will feel themselves becoming better, more observant people from reading him"— Los Angeles Times ) comes a blackly comic literary gem in which a broken man confronts a broken world on an uninhabited Pacific island. “Beautifully weird, eerie, unexpected — a story for our times.” —Kevin Barry, author of The Heart in Winter and Night Boat to Tangier Reeling from tragedy, a former jazz musician–turned–schoolteacher named Adi answers a job listing advertising a chance to save the world. The assignment: to spend five weeks alone on the tiny, isolated Pacific Island of Santa Flora righting an ecological balance that’s gone severely out of whack, with the aim of preserving countless bird and plant species from certain extinction. What follows, however, is anything but balanced. The threats to the once-Edenic island, Adi