In a nothing town in the American Badlands, three women find different ways to escape their lives, their families and their pain.
Human Geography is the story of three unconnected women, linked by a small dusty town in the middle of nowhere.
Annie Connell has always dreamt of travelling, so much so that she collects maps and has named each of her seven children after various American states. When one of her twin daughters, North Dakota, dies in an accident on the railway track that offers the only way out of the town, the family begins to disintegrate.
Annie becomes increasingly depressed, until a mysterious visitor comes to the guesthouse. The exotic Valetta Ramón is everything Annie longed to be as a child; beautiful, adventurous, well travelled…but is she all she seems?
North Dakota’s death casts ripples through the town – orphaned Jenny Frobisher and her married lover have to face the truth of their relationship, and even a decade later the sprawling McGill clan are affected by the death of one little girl, trying to get out of the dust.
Human Geography is a story of family, escape, imagination and love.