In the far future, 2642 AD, the world has suffered through the Millennial war and ethnicity and racism have disappeared. But when Jimmy Matoo is approached by the first white man he's ever seen, he's finds out there are secret colonies of a white supremacist cult determined to become a majority again. Julius Bull is the leader of the colonies and the only one of his people to know about the world's technology. He wants Jimmy to find out what happened to his granddaughter Cara, who disappeared from the colonies. Jimmy refuses at first, until he finds out that his brother was killed right outside Corinth's borders on the night Cara disappeared. The only way to find out what really happened to his brother is to find Cara, but once he arrives there, he realizes he might be lucky to even escape with his own life.
I was amazed to find out this is the author's debut novel. The writing is excellent and I was drawn into the story from the first page. Just like Jimmy, I would be shocked and horrified that generations of children were forced into arranged marriages so young, their only value being the amount of children they could conceive. I'm hoping that the ending of this book was the hint of a sequel?!
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