{"product_id":"tropic-of-kansas","title":"Tropic of Kansas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Timely, dark, and ultimately hopeful: it might not 'make America great again, ' but then again, it just might.\"--Cory Doctorow, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling and award winning author of \u003cem\u003eHomeland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcclaimed short story writer and editor of the World Fantasy Award-nominee \u003cem\u003eThree Messages and a Warning \u003c\/em\u003eeerily envisions an American society unraveling and our borders closed off--from the other side--in this haunting and provocative novel that combines Max Barry's \u003cem\u003eJennifer Government\u003c\/em\u003e, Philip K. Dick's classic \u003cem\u003eMan in the High Castle, \u003c\/em\u003e and China Mieville's \u003cem\u003eThe City \u0026amp; the City\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe United States of America is no more. Broken into warring territories, its center has become a wasteland DMZ known as \"the Tropic of Kansas.\" Though this gaping geographic hole has no clear boundaries, everyone knows it's out there--that once-bountiful part of the heartland, broken by greed and exploitation, where neglect now breeds unrest. Two travelers appear in this arid American wilderness: Sig, the fugitive orphan of political dissidents, and his foster sister Tania, a government investigator whose search for Sig leads her into her own past--and towards an unexpected future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSig promised those he loves that he would make it to the revolutionary redoubt of occupied New Orleans. But first he must survive the wild edgelands of a barren mid-America policed by citizen militias and autonomous drones, where one wrong move can mean capture . . . or death. One step behind, undercover in the underground, is Tania. Her infiltration of clandestine networks made of old technology and new politics soon transforms her into the hunted one, and gives her a shot at being the agent of real change--if she is willing to give up the explosive government secrets she has sworn to protect. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs brother and sister traverse these vast and dangerous badlands, their paths will eventually intersect on the front lines of a revolution whose fuse they are about to light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Futurist as provocateur! The world is sheer batshit genius . . . a truly hallucinatorily envisioned environment.\"--William Gibson, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling and award-winning author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Voyager","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51947328405735,"sku":"9780062563811","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_b1bdcefd-a6dc-4fa8-a52d-f59b6d819e52.jpg?v=1775487025","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/tropic-of-kansas","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}