Coming Spring 2027
ABOUT THE BOOK
MIT student Nathan Eastmond dreams of building satellites to save dying farms, to ensure no one again suffers his father’s fate. But he is dangerously close to washing out. In exchange for a gift that could salvage his education, he volunteers to repair trucks in Haiti, traveling there with an itinerant and mysterious missionary salesman.
Analee Dieudonné is a teenage mechanical genius—raised by a bicycling father who nurtured her mind, enslaved by an aunt who profits off the backs of street boys. When Analee meets Nathan, she uncovers a secret about him that neither of them can afford to tell. But they are being watched, and sooner or later the truth will come for them both.
Set on the eve of historic tragedy, Far as the Curse Is Found takes readers on an epic journey of failure and redemption, connecting Middle America to the Caribbean. Olsen’s ambitious and masterful novel explores the world of voluntourism in all its complexity, inviting us to probe the meaning of travel, the limits of our power, and the beauty of needing others.