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Narrator Xe Sands delivers this story with control, even detachment: the almost languid tone chillingly amplifies the hideous near-future Yuknavitch exposes in her highly anticipated follow-up to The Small Backs of Children. At 49, Christine is in her "last year until ascension," an anachronistic term that signals "dead is dead" for residents of CIEL—"the aftermath of earth-life" that hovers above the ravaged planet. Mere thousands have survived multiple world wars and are now subjects of the vicious autocrat Jean de Men. These l...Log In or Sign Up to Read More