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01725aam a2200301 i 4500 001 1E922FD293AD11EC9EF6B98439ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220222010023 008 180529s2019 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2018025304 020 $a 1462538150 020 $a 9781462538157 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $e rda $d DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3612.E2198 $b S66 2019 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Leavy, Patricia, $d 1975- $e author. 245 10 $a Spark / $c Patricia Leavy. 264 1 $a New York : $b The Guilford Press, $c 2019. 300 $a vii, 154 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Professor Peyton Wilde has an enviable life teaching sociology at an idyllic liberal arts college -- yet she is troubled by a sense of fading inspiration. One day an invitation arrives. Peyton has been selected to attend a luxurious all-expense-paid seminar in Iceland, where participants, billed as some of the greatest thinkers in the world, will be charged with answering one perplexing question. Meeting her diverse teammates -- two neuroscientists, a philosopher, a dance teacher, a collage artist, and a farmer -- Peyton wonders what she could ever have to contribute. The ensuing journey of discovery will transform the characters' work, their biases, and themselves. This suspenseful novel shows that the answers you seek can be found in the most unlikely places"-- Read less 650 $a Women college teachers -- Fiction. 650 $a Women sociologists -- Fiction. 650 $a Life change events -- Fiction. 655 7 $a Suspense fiction. $2 gsafd 941 $a 1 952 $l SMPE094 $d 20240104020401.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1E922FD293AD11EC9EF6B98439ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search