![]() Those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure. Those with the means and the privilege have departed the great cities of the United States for the more comfortable confines of space colonies. ![]() In his adult novel debut, Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and NAACP Image Award finalist and ALA Alex and New England Book Award winner Tochi Onyebuchi delivers a sweeping science fiction epic in the vein of Samuel R. Riveting, disturbing, and rendered in masterful detail.”-Leigh Bardugo “Onyebuchi sets fire to the boundary between fiction and reality, and brings a crumbling city and an all too plausible future to vibrant life. "A diverse cast of narrators provides glimpses of a near-future Earth devastated by climate change, nuclear disaster, and disease."- AudioFile Magazine ![]()
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