Spark
(Book)

"Professor Peyton Wilde has an enviable life teaching sociology at an idyllic liberal arts college -- yet she is troubled by a sense of fading inspiration. One day an invitation arrives. Peyton has been selected to attend a luxurious all-expense-pad seminar in Iceland, where participants, billed as some of the greatest thinkers in the world, will be charged with answering one perplexing question. Meeting her diverse teammates -- two neuroscientists, a philosopher, a dance teacher, a collage artist, and a farmer -- Peyton wonders what she could ever have to contribute. The ensuing journey of discovery will transform the characters' work, their biases, and themselves. This suspenseful novel shows that the answers you seek can be found in the most unlikely places"--,Provided by publisher.