Can I read Edge of the Known World: A Novel on EtoBox?

Edge of the Known World: A Novel by Sheri T. Joseph is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Edge of the Known World: A Novel about?

*Fans of Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake* will be swept away by this riveting speculative fiction adventure and love story about family, genetic privacy, and the onrushing future of surveillance technology. ** Alexandra Tashen is a brilliant student, adoring daughter, merry wit, and exuberant prankster. After a blissful childhood on a Texas ranch, she learns the She is a refusé, an illegal refugee smuggled into the Allied Nations as an infant. Everyone from her birth region carries a harmless but detectable bit of viral DNA from a flu vaccine. If detected by the rapid genetic testing at security screens, Alex will be returned to the Federation and a likely death. Her adoptive father developed a gene therapy to mask her g-marker, but it is not fully effective. Every g-screen presents a nerve-racking one-in-ten chance of getting caught. When her father goes missing, Alex abandons her cloistered academic life in San Francisco for a globe-trotting Commission in a desperate race to warn him of a trap that will destroy them both. As Alex dodges g-screens on her precarious and often-hilarious adventure, a love triangle develops between her and two Eric Burton, a commanding and disgraced

Author

Sheri T. Joseph

Publisher

SparkPress (a BookSparks Imprint)

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9781684632626