INK by Sabrina Vourvoulias – Free ARC giveaways!
Jul 5th, 2012 | By Bart Leib | Category: CG Blog
What happens when rhetoric about immigrants escalates to an institutionalized population control system? The near-future, dark speculative novel INK 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.
Set in a fictional city and small, rural town in the U.S. during a 10-year span, the novel is told in four voices: a journalist; an ink who works in a local population control office; an artist strongly tied to a specific piece of land; and a teenager whose mother runs an inkatorium (a sanitarium-internment center opened in response to public health concerns about inks).
The main characters grapple with ever-changing definitions of power, home and community; relationships that expand and complicate their lives; personal magicks they don’t fully understand; and perceptions of “otherness” based on ethnicity, language, class and inclusion. In this world, the protagonists’ magicks serve and fail, as do all other systems – government, gang, religious organization – until only two things alone stand: love and memory.
Crossed Genres will release Ink in print and ebook on Monday, October 15, 2012. But we’re giving away ARC copies right now!
Twenty ebook ARCs available through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers program
Request a copy of INK months ahead of its release!
