Two Americans are presumed dead and nine people are trapped in a cabin after an avalanche falls in the remote Andes...<br/><br/>Told from five points of view, What the Ground Can't Hold follows:<br/>Emma, an Australian faced with an impossible decision that could see her parents jailed.<br/><br/>Jack, a teenager obsessed with Jack Kerouac, anti-globalism and sex.<br/><br/>Carmen, a tango dancer whose estranged father is dying of cancer.<br/><br/>Pedro, the cabin manager, who's in hiding from his ex-wife.<br/><br/>And Wolfe, an American on a deadly family quest.<br/><br/>With food supplies dwindling, these unlikely companions are forced to extremes and discover they are bound by more than their surroundings each has a secret that links them to Argentina's Dirty War.<br/><br/>What the Ground Can't Hold is a mesmerising debut about the ways the past closes in on the present, and shatters the foundations upon which we build our lives.