It’s far from perfect, but then again, perfection is not the goal, community is. While he does not - and is never asked to - specifically renounce imperialism, Dimos comes to see what the insurgents are fighting for: a utopian society. It’s often hard going for Dimos, who has to prove that he will not betray the anarchists who have both captured him and show him mercy. A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy (Black Dawn)ĭimos, a wartime journalist in a fictional world, finds himself embedded in a rebel unit that has murdered the commander he was sent to profile. Gorgeously written, Zelniker pinpoints the power that societies have to incite change. This dystopian novel addresses how a nation loses democracy, while tracking how people find solace in a landscape of violence and loss of civil rights under an increasingly authoritarian government. She also knows what her older sister Hannah tells her, like that being trans was not always illegal. Young, is part of the resistance what Isla does know is that her own mother is no longer allowed to work outside of the home, even though she doesn’t fully understand why. At first, Isla, a Black and transgender high school student has no idea her teacher, Ms. In the aftermath of a disastrous election that mirrors the 2016 political climate in the United States, things in this novel’s country take a turn for the worse, and civil war breaks out. Until We Fall by Nicole Zelniker (Jaded Ibis Press)
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