We Went to the Woods

They went off the grid. Their secrets didn't. For readers of The Secret History and The Immortalists comes a novel about the allure—and dangers—of disconnecting."Dark, gothic, and hauntingly beautiful, this is addictive storytelling at its best."—JP Delaney, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Before Certain that society is on the verge of economic and environmental collapse, five disillusioned twenty-somethings make a bold decision: They gather in upstate New York to transform an abandoned farm, once the site of a turn-of-the-century socialist commune, into an idyllic self-sustaining compound called the Homestead. Mack, a publicly disgraced grad-school dropout, believes it's her calling to write their story. She immediately falls in love with all four friends, seduced by their charisma and grand plans—and deeply attracted to their secrets. But it proves difficult for Mack to uncover the truth...