Patio de recreo

Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu dives into a Montreal pool strapped into one of the world's first self-contained underwater breathing apparatuses. Ina Aroita grows up on Pacific naval bases with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school are brought together by a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will lose himself in literature, while Todd Keane's work will lead to a startling breakthrough in artificial intelligence. They all converge on Makatea, a French Polynesian island steeped in history, whose phosphorus deposits once helped feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanity's next venture: launching autonomous, floating cities into the open ocean. But first, the island's inhabitants must vote to either approve the project or expel the marine colonists.