The moving story of one family struggling to maintain their humanity in circumstances that threaten their every valueโfrom the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of Thank You, Mr. Nixon. โข โIntricately imagined โฆ [It] grows directly out of the soil of our current political moment.โ โThe New York Times Book Review
The time: not so long from now. The place: AutoAmerica, a country surveilled by one โAunt Nettie,โ a Big Brother that is part artificial intelligence, part internet, and oddly humanโeven funny. The people: divided. The โangelfairโ Netted have jobs and, what with the country half under water, literally occupy the high ground. The Surplus live on swampland if theyโre lucky, on water if theyโre not.
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The story: To a Surplus coupleโhe once a professor, she still a lawyerโis born a girl, Gwen, with a golden arm. Her teens find her happily playing in an underground baseball league, but when AutoAmerica faces ChinRussia in the Olympics, Gwen finds herself in dangerous territory, playing ball with the Netted even as her mother battles this apartheid-like society in court.