Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

I keep my exoskeletons to myself : a novel / Marisa Crane.

by Crane, Marisa.

View full image

Catapult, 2023.

Single mothers -- Fiction.

Grief -- Fiction.

Lesbians -- Fiction.

Government, Resistance to -- Fiction.

Law enforcement -- Fiction.

Civil rights -- Fiction.

Lambda Literary Award.

9781646221295 (hc.)

344 p. ; 22 cm.

"In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form of law enforcement: rather than incarceration, wrongdoers are given a second (and sometimes, third, fourth, and fifth) shadow as a reminder of their crime--and a warning to those they encounter. Within the Department, corruption and prejudice run rampant, giving rise to an underclass of so-called Shadesters who are disenfranchised, publicly shamed, and deprived of civil rights protections. Kris is a Shadester and a new mother to a baby born with a second shadow of her own. Grieving the loss of her wife and thoroughly unprepared for the reality of raising a child alone, Kris teeters on the edge of collapse, fumbling in a daze of alcohol, shame, and self-loathing. Yet as the kid grows, Kris finds her footing, raising a child whose irrepressible spark cannot be dampened by the harsh realities of the world."--Publisher.

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction, 2024.

Alternative histories (Fiction)

Dystopian fiction.

Futuristic fiction.

Science fiction.

2SLGBTQIA+ fiction.

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal