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Cooper Gosling has just answered five hundred of them. Her results indicate she is strange enough for Polar life. Cooper’s not sure if this is an achievement, but she knows she has nothing to lose. Unmoored by a recent family tragedy, she’s adrift at thirty and - despite her early promise as a painter - on the verge of sinking her career. So she accepts her place in the National Science Foundation’s Artists \u0026amp; Writers Program and flees to Antarctica - where she encounters a group of misfits motivated by desires as ambiguous as her own.  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