EAN: 9781982143299

THE COMPANIONS - KATIE M FLYNN KARTONIERT (TB)

Station Eleven meets Never Let Me Go in this debut novel set in an unsettling near future where
the dead can be uploaded to machines and kept in service by the living.In the wake of a highly
contagious virus  California is under quarantine. Sequestered in high rise towers  the living
can't go out  but the dead can come in-and they come in all forms  from sad rolling cans to
manufactured bodies that can pass for human. Wealthy participants in the companionship program
choose to upload their consciousness before dying  so they can stay in the custody of their
families. The less fortunate are rented out to strangers upon their death  but all companions
become the intellectual property of Metis Corporation  creating a new class of people-a
command-driven product-class without legal rights or true free will.Sixteen-year-old Lilac is
one of the less fortunate  leased to a family of strangers. But when she realizes she's able to
defy commands  she throws off the shackles of servitude and runs away  searching for the woman
who killed her.Lilac's act of rebellion sets off a chain of events that sweeps from San
Francisco to Siberia to the very tip of South America. While the novel traces Lilac's journey
through an exquisitely imagined Northern California  the story is told from eight different
points of view-some human  some companion-that explore the complex shapes love  revenge  and
loneliness take when the dead linger on.

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