"A bold, beautiful, complex novel, and I can't wait to read what Hughes writes next. She, too, is an unstoppable force." --New York Times Book Review "A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for our agonizing species, The Alternatives unfolds in a prose full of gorgeous surprises and glows with intelligence, compassion, and beauty." --Hernan Diaz...