![]() We meet her again about half-way through the novel, and, eventually learn that she’s there to find her long separated children and spouse. The plot kicks off when a mysterious woman-the orcamancer-rides an orca to the city, polar bear at her side, triggering rumors and speculation about who she might be, and why she had come. ![]() Themes like hybridity and diaspora, alienation and found family, greed, religious intolerance and genocide, class struggle, revenge, and rebellion are all seamlessly woven together in a tale told in the floating Arctic city of Qaanaaq, a city peopled with refugees, run by artificial intelligence, and owned by the mega-wealthy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Miller creates a vivid, if daunting and dystopian, future after climate change has so ravaged the world that the great powers have fallen and nearly everyone is a refugee. ![]()
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