Ink

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.

• Author
• Sabrina Vourvoulias

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 230

• Publisher
• Crossed Genres Publications

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-615-65781-3

• EAN
• 9780615657813

• Genres
• fiction, dystopia, fantasy, novels, race, contemporary

• Release date
• 2012