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It's not the end of the world, but it's starting to feel that way. On November 17, the Next World Society is planning to leave Earth behind and reboot human civilization on a planet unaffected by climate change and pollution. It sounds crazy to Rooney Harris, but to her mother and younger brother it sounds like salvation. As her mother's obsession with Departure threatens to tear their family apart, Rooney is scrambling to hold it together. But will saving her family mean sacrificing her dreams -- or theirs?



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Katrin van Dam

Growing up, Katrin van Dam lived for singing, dancing, acting and generally showing off. She majored in Theater Studies at Yale and then moved to New York to become a Big Star. She soon discovered that she had a crippling attachment to food and shelter, and that her acting "career" was unlikely to yield much of either, so she got a job in children's media. Twenty-mumble years later, she is a creative executive at a major media company and writes in her spare time. She and her husband, who met as acting interns at a Shakespeare Festival, live in New York City.



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