Harrow

Harrow is a darkly visionary novel from Joy Williams, one of America's most fearless and original literary voices. Set in a near future undone by ecological collapse, the story follows fifteen-year-old Khristen, a girl once believed to have died and come back to life. After being cast out of a crumbling boarding school, she finds herself at a strange lakeside resort populated by aging eco-terrorists planning one last act of resistance. Williams creates a surreal and haunted landscape, where language itself seems on the verge of decay and redemption is both urgent and elusive. With biting wit and searing clarity, she examines what it means to inherit a broken world, and whether justice is still possible when so much has already been lost. Harrow is not a conventional dystopia but something stranger and more luminous—a philosophical fable, a lament, and a call to arms disguised as a fever dream. With prose both brutal and lyrical, Williams offers a fierce meditation on death, responsibil