Fresh Perspective on Human Nature

After surviving a shooting at her high school, Linnea is sent to live with her estranged father, Art, who doesn’t quite understand how he has suddenly become responsible for raising a moody teenager. Art’s neighbor, Christie, is a nurse distracted by an eccentric patient, Mrs. Foster, who has given Christie the reins to her Humanity Project, a bizarre and well-endowed charity fund. Just as mysteriously, no one seems to know where Conner, the Fosters’ handyman, goes after work, but he has become the one person Linnea can confide in, perhaps because his own home life is a war zone: his father has suffered an injury and become addicted to painkillers. As these characters and many more hurtle toward their fates, the Humanity Project is born: Can you indeed pay someone to be good? At what price?  Jean Thompson's The Humanity Project, which was chosen as one of Amazon's best books of the month, delivers emotionally suspenseful and thoroughly entertaining characters, in which we see ourselves. Set against the backdrop of current events and cultural calamity, it is  an observant story of our twenty-first-century society