What Peace Looks Like: A Novel

Ten years. Ten cities. One question that changes everything. No more war. No hunger. No prisons. It sounds like a fantasy. For Anna Zaugg it is simply Tuesday. She is thirty, Switzerland's foreign minister, a mother of three, and she has not slept through a night in years. Once a year she packs a bag and meets the women who run the world: in Dubai, Geneva, Cape Town, Rio, Bali. They argue about the past, plan the future, and sit in saunas that are always a few degrees too hot. And somewhere between the speeches and the late-night tea, something grows that is bigger than politics: friendship. Family. The stubborn discovery that peace is not a condition. It is a decision you make again every morning. What Peace Looks Like tells of a world that is different from ours, and asks whether it might be a better one. A story about women who keep going. And about pancakes that taste best when everyone is at the table.