On Monday, Oct. 15, on the last day of the observance of Hispanic Heritage Month, Crossed Genres Publications is proud and excited to release Sabrina Vourvoulias’ debut novel, Ink, a fictional look at what happens when rhetoric about immigrants escalates to an institutionalized population control system.

The near-future, dark speculative novel 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. This “chilling tale of American apartheid, and the power of love, myth and community” (Reforma: The National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking) has its main characters grapple with ever-changing definitions of power, home and community, and perceptions of “otherness” based on ethnicity, language, class and inclusion.

“[Ink] ranges over time, space and magic in a story by turns horrifying, heart-breaking, beautiful, hopeful, frustrating and terribly believable. Vourvoulias’s writing is effortless and effective, uncannily capturing the voices of her disparate protagonists and narrators; not uniformly sympathetic, certainly not always nice, but lucid, convincing and consistent.”

The Future Fire

“Readers will be moved by this call for justice in the future and the present.”

– Publisher’s Weekly

Sabrina Vourvoulias is a Latina newspaper editor, blogger and writer. CGP has previous published Sabrina’s stories in CG Magazine #24, Crossed Genres Year Two, and the anthology Fat Girl in a Strange Land.