Some of Us May Never Die

What do you lose, when you lose someone you love?

What if you could get it back?

Samantha Adler grew up in a ‘90s utopian dream. Oasis was a California desert compound of scientists and philosophers determined to tame nature through sheer force of will. Sam’s parents wanted to remake the world; her sister Siggy wanted a normal life like the ones she saw on TV; all Sam ever wanted was Siggy. As long as they were together, Oasis was already utopia.

But utopias aren’t built to last.

Twenty years later, still haunted by the tragedy that ended her youth, Sam’s erased everything about the future-dreaming girl she used to be. Everything except Caleb Wolfe. Once her sister Siggy’s first love, now a tech bro who only loves the algorithm, what is Caleb to Sam? Nothing and everything. The one person she’d do anything to be rid of—the one person she can never stand to lose. When Caleb reappears in her life for what may be the last time, Sam’s forced to confront the ghosts of her past. The only way to piece together her broken heart is to finally discover what happened the night it shattered.

Robin Wasserman has written an audacious and deeply felt novel where all the hopes and hubris of innovation intersect with desire, defiance, grief, love—and, ultimately, what it means to be human.