What kind of paradise by Janelle Brown

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Published: May 26, 2026 by Random House Trade Paperbacks

Fiction/own

 I do not actually remember hearing about this book before, it was just a book at the grocery store among livehockey books and I thought I deserved a treat.

Also, nominee for best historical? Whaaaat? no I refuse too, historical should at LEAST be 50 years ago, not the 90s.

Jane grows up with her dad in a cabin in Montana. Nearest town 1 hour away. They only go there as a treat. She is homeschooled. Learns to hunt. And writes her dad´s manifesto as he hates new technology. But she is 17 now and she starts to question things. Where did they come from? Why does her dad disappears for days at a time?

We all know what is coming, certainly not something good. Her dad has escape routes, talks about the feds, and just gets angrier...

I liked this one. I wanted to know what had happened before and if Jane would be ok. She is just trying to hang in there, and she is so curious about the outside world.

The first thing you have to understand is that my father was my entire world.

Growing up in an isolated cabin in Montana in the mid-1990s, Jane knows only the world that she and her father live the woodstove that heats their home, the vegetable garden where they try to eke out a subsistence existence, the books of nineteenth-century philosophy that her father gives her to read in lieu of going to school. Her father is elusive about their pasts, giving Jane little beyond the facts that they once lived in the Bay Area and that her mother died in a car accident, the crash propelling him to move Jane off the grid to raise her in a Thoreau-like utopia.

As Jane becomes a teenager she starts pushing against the boundaries of her restricted world. She begs to accompany her father on his occasional trips away from the cabin. But when Jane realizes that her devotion to her father has made her an accomplice to a horrific crime, she flees Montana to the only place she knows to look for answers about her mysterious past, and her mother's San Francisco. It is a city in the midst of a seismic change, where her quest to understand herself will force her to reckon with both the possibilities and the perils of the fledgling Internet, and where she will come to question everything she values.