Creator Neal Shusterman Reveals Cowl of All Higher Now (Unique)

The quilt of Neal Shusterman’s newest novel is right here!

All Higher Now, a brand new younger grownup thriller for the New York Occasions bestselling creator, is slated for a February 2025 launch — and PEOPLE can completely share the duvet.

The ebook follows three teenagers in a world the place a brand new sort of contagion is spreading — happiness. However all the things is just not as peachy because it sounds.

Shusterman calls the ebook a “completely different sort of pandemic story.”

“If happiness had been actually a virus – would we wish to catch it?” Shusterman asks, in an announcement. “And extra importantly, would we select to unfold it, even when it has a excessive mortality fee?”

“After the years we misplaced to COVID, I wished to inform a special sort of pandemic story,” the creator of over 30 novels tells PEOPLE. “All Higher Now is extra concerning the questions than the solutions, and the wild experience these questions take us on! For me, the largest query is that this: Can our world deal with a contagion of contentment … or will it tear us aside?”

In response to the ebook’s synopsis, the novel unfolds as a lethal and unprecedented virus is spreading.

“However those that survive it expertise long-term results nobody has ever seen earlier than: utter contentment. Quickly after an infection, individuals discover the stress, melancholy, greed and different unfavorable emotions that used to weigh them down are gone,” the synopsis reads. “An increasing number of individuals start to disclose within the mass unburdening. However not everybody.”

As contentment spreads, the highly effective develop into affected circuitously by the virus, however its influence on their wallets.

“Individuals in energy — who depend upon malcontents and  prey on the insecure to promote their merchandise, and persuade others they want extra, new, quicker, higher all the things — know this new state of being is unhealthy for enterprise,” the synopsis reads. “Certainly, with out anger or jealousy as motivators, productiveness will grind to a halt and the world shall be thrown into chaos.”

That kicks off a marketing campaign to persuade people who everlasting happiness is harmful, in addition to a race to discover a vaccine. However on the identical time, a rising motion of those that have recovered try to unfold the virus as quick as attainable.

With a number of platforms pushing completely different agendas, “it’s practically inconceivable to find out the reality” — and All Higher Now follows a trio of essential characters as they navigate this new regular.

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All Higher Now comes out Feb. 4, 2025 and is accessible for preorder now, wherever books are bought.