The Resisters A Novel

Description: The moving story of one family struggling to maintain their humanity in circumstances that threaten their every value from the highly acclaimed award - winning author of Thank You Mr. Nixon. Intricately imagined It grows directly out of the soil of our current political moment. The New York Times Book Review The time: not so long from now. The place: Auto America a country surveilled by one Aunt Nettie a Big Brother that is part artificial intelligence part internet and oddly human even funny. The people: divided. The angelfair Netted have jobs and what with the country half under water literally occupy the high ground. The Surplus live on swampland if they re lucky on water if they re not. The story: To a Surplus couple he once a professor she still a lawyer is born a girl Gwen with a golden arm. Her teens find her happily playing in an underground baseball league but when Auto America faces Chin Russia 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.
Title: The Resisters A Novel
Barcode: 9780525657224
Publication Date: 1/12/2021
Series: Vintage Contemporaries