A World Elsewhere

Set at the turn of the twentieth century, A World Elsewhere follows Landish Druken, a brilliant but directionless young man expelled from Princeton who returns to his childhood home in St. John's, Newfoundland. Caught in the shadow of his father’s corrupt political career and his own failed literary ambitions, Landish eventually finds himself drawn to the Appalachian wilderness of North Carolina. There, his former college friend Padgett—a fictionalized version of George Vanderbilt—is constructing Biltmore, the largest private residence in America. Amidst the opulence of the Gilded Age and the rugged isolation of Newfoundland, the novel explores themes of father-son relationships, the pursuit of legacy, and the search for a place where one truly belongs.

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