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02191aam a2200349 i 4500 001 E8321BEE4D4311EEBB1CF29156ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230907010029 008 221208t20232023enk 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9781838956257 020 $a 1838956255 020 $a 1838956247 020 $a 9781838956240 035 $a (OCoLC)1335400717 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d UKMGB $d SINLB $d IG$ $d OCLCF $d VP@ $d TP7 $d NZWHC $d SILO 050 4 $a PR6113 A2628 I53 2023 100 1 $a MacInnes, Martin, $e author. 245 10 $a In ascension / $c Martin MacInnes. 264 1 $a London : $b Atlantic Books, $c 2023. 300 $a 496 pages ; $c 22 cm 500 $a Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize. 520 $a "Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanged by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of the earth's first life forms--what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our own beginnings. Her discovery leads Leigh to the Mojave desert and an ambitious new space agency. Drawn deeper into the agency's work, she learns that the Atlantic trench is only one of several related phenomena from across the world, each piece linking up to suggest a pattern beyond human understanding. Leigh knows that to continue working with the agency will mean leaving behind her declining mother and her younger sister, and she faces an impossible choice: to remain with her family, or to embark on a journey across the breadth of the cosmos."--Jacket flap. 650 0 $a Marine biologists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women scientists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Evolution (Biology) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Discoveries in science $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Life on other planets $v Fiction. 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781838956264 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231004011917.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E8321BEE4D4311EEBB1CF29156ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search