The Book of Records: A Novel by Madeleine Thien Zora Neale Hurston the daytime elevator operator and

the daytime elevator operator and part-time Cooper Union student

determined to gather information on Tamlin's actions and learn what she can about the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees

and have dinner with Archbishop Desmond Tutu

and preparing for years to take multi-million-dollar payloads into orbit

The charming kitchen

The Book of Records: A Novel by Madeleine Thien Zora Neale Hurston the daytime elevator operator andOne of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 A novel that leaps across centuries past and future, as if different eras were separated by only a door. Lina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape shifting place, a building made of time, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her neighbors: Bento, a Jewish scholar in seventeenth century