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Today’s book recommendation is a recent version that I have been looking forward to since last year. I had attended an event where the author read part of Chapter one and I was riveted. This mixture of science fiction and fantasy takes place in San Francisco along three deadlines, two in the past and one in the not too distant future. It is a beautifully written and stimulating examination of our connections and obligations to each other in time.

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The oldest anchor in the time of this book was in 1906 that some of us who are from the Bay region knows is a really important year in the history of San Francisco. Our protagonist in the chronology of 1906 is Li Nuan. Li Nuan is about sixteen years old and she is currently in San Francisco because her father in China sold it to settle a game debt. She does a domestic job for a boss of the crowd of Chinatown, and this domestic work quickly turns into sex traffic when she is forced to work in one of the associated brothels.

The second calendar was in 2006 with an American Chinese that the named Nathan. He is a designer working in technology and is a passionate burner. In this context, the term burner refers to the faithful of Burning Man, which is a celebration of hedonistic art of several days in the desert of Nevada. Nathan’s workplace is protected because of his role in the support of a technological business which depends on the slavery of the children necessary for all our technological products. Although horrible, this is based in fact, and I appreciate the author who made it aware of this and use it as an opportunity for moral awakening and evolution.

The third and main chronology is still a hundred years later in 2106. Maida Sun has psionic capacities, just like many people after something that happened “The Bloom”. Her capacity is psychometry, which is the ability to hold an object and learn the history of her property and what she has witnessed. During her new job assignment, she obtains really intense and really terrifying readings of a particular object, an object that readers will recognize both the chronology of Li Nuan and the chronology of Nathan.

I liked this book so much. It was an excellent reading, an excellent rhythm, a captivating narration and an impressive display of the conversations between the past and the future, and the advantages of having these connections. Content warnings for racism, sexual assault and harassment, historical sexual trafficking in minors, physical and verbal violence, violence, consumption of substances and drug -related death.