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Ink

Ink

by Sabrina Vourvoulias and Bart R Leib
Paperback
Publication Date: 25/06/2012

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What happens when rhetoric about immigrants escalates to an institutionalized population control system? The near-future, dark speculative novel INK opens as a biometric tattoo is approved for use to mark temporary workers, permanent residents and citizens with recent immigration history - collectively known as inks. Set in a fictional city and small, rural town in the U.S. during a 10-year span, the novel is told in four voices: a journalist; an ink who works in a local population control office; an artist strongly tied to a specific piece of land; and a teenager whose mother runs an inkatorium (a sanitarium-internment center opened in response to public health concerns about inks). The main characters grapple with ever-changing definitions of power, home and community; relationships that expand and complicate their lives; personal magicks they don't fully understand; and perceptions of "otherness" based on ethnicity, language, class and inclusion. In this world, the protagonists' magicks serve and fail, as do all other systems - government, gang, religious organization - until only two things alone stand: love and memory.
ISBN:
9780615657813
9780615657813
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
25-06-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Crossed Genres Publications
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
236
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x13mm
Weight:
0.32kg

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