America, 2049: summer temperatures are intolerably high and humans are implanted with a "Flick" at birth, which allows them to remain perpetually online. When a high-profile client offers Rose a job to secretly monitor the mercurial architect in charge - in return for a home for her displaced mother and herself - she accepts it. Rose quickly secures the trust of her target; but in the north, she begins to sense a new way forward, and her objective shifts. Through skillfully entwined perspectives, the fate of the Camp and its select inhabitants comes into stunning relief.
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