Will I love Vera, or Faith?

As in last year's Hum we are in the dystopean near future as seen through the eyes of a 10 year old girl. I found this United States where those of European heritage have 3/5 voting rights, where girls and women crossing state lines have to test that they are not pregnant, scarily prescient. Vera's everyday childhood concerns compete with her overriding obession to find her birth mother. The book is not all gloom and doom and through Vera's eyes there is room for humor and hope for her future.

Highly immersive story during which the author sneakily introduces new technologies that for us are day-after-tomorrow but that characters take for granted, and political developments that are both horrific and all-too-believable given current trends. At the end, we wonder, "Whoa, what just happened!"