Slice the Water
Longlisted, Canada ReadsBorn on the lush island nation of Mahana, Fred lives under the tyrannical rule of a book-burning king. Under the king's rule, Mahanians are controlled by a military dictatorship and threatened with forced starvation, while people with disabilities are exiled. After Fred's father suddenly disappears, Fred joins an underground movement of dissenters and becomes an unwitting global icon in the fight for Mahanian freedom. When he is recruited and relocated by an organization that appears sympathetic to Fred's cause, he arrives in a seemingly peaceful foreign nation, where the impact of social media and technology creates a new, stranger struggle. A dystopian thriller, a speculative fiction, and a coming-of-age story, Wong's novel thrums with biting bursts of staccato-like prose - a fitting accompaniment to a fascinating exploration of contrasting political systems. As Fred unpeels layers of truth and sees beyond the optics of altruism and the illusion of choice, Slice the Water unpacks the myriad amplifying impacts of technology, addiction, and complacency.
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