Description
Book SynopsisWritten by the author of The Floating World, this novel explores human relationships in a Los Angeles of the future, where rich and poor are deeply polarized and where water, food, gas and education cannot be taken for granted.
Trade Review"An apocalyptic picture of America on the brink of civil disorder and social collapse. . . . The writing is lucid and finely honed, often lyrical and occasionally magical." -- Michiko Kakutani, * New York Times *
""Kadohata's finely wrought prose creates haunting pictures." * Washington Post *
"A chilling vision of the 21st century, conceived with prescient imagination and rendered in lean, evocative prose that blossoms into stunning images. ,. . . As timely as this week's news, yet with the enduring value of literature, this novel speaks simply but eloquently of the human spirit's capacity to survive. * Publishers Weekly *
"Kadohata is masterful in her evocation of physical, spiritual, and cultural displacement. . . . The message of this marvelous though often painful book is that our capacity to feel deep emotion—our own and others's—just might bind us together, and save us from ourselves." * Los Angeles Times *
"Kadohata manages with lean, uncomplicated prose to tell a remarkable story of love and redemption, with characters who are credible and sympathetic." * Chicago Tribune *
"Recommended as an effective depiction of what the future might hold." * Library Journal *
"A beautifully crafted novel that warns and hurts and delights." * Kirkus Reviews *
"This remarkable novel, set in 2052, imagines a Los Angeles in which class and economic inequities are heightened and resources have grown scarce. It’s not dystopia that interests Kadohata, however, but survival: the various ways we get along." * Alta: Journal of Alta California *
Table of ContentsBlack Pearls
A Cage of Light
Hope
Family Man
Jewel
Possibilities
Like a Giant Game-Show Board
Long Ago
Outpost
Tattoo City
No One Would Notice
Heat
Insolence
"I Was Here"
Helicopters
In the Valley of Love
