Book description
Dept. of Speculation meets Black Mirror in this lyrical, speculative debut about a queer mother raising her daughter in an unjust surveillance state
In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form of law enforcement: rather than incarceration, wrongdoers are…
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The premise of this speculative fiction is simple but wild: in the near future, “criminals” are given an extra shadow that follows them wherever they go, rain or shine. The narrator, a Shadester named Kris, is a new mother whose wife Beau has died in childbirth, earning their daughter her very own automatic shadow assignment.
The story is told in gorgeous experimental prose, a mix of letters to Beau, pop quizzes, shopping lists, and short vignettes that trace the contours of queer love, parenting, shame, and resistance. As the “squish-faced kid” butterflies into a fiery teen, she and Kris find…
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