leaving all of its inhabitants with nothing but a ship to a new island, partly made of sinking landfill.
it is a new world. and, yet, it has carried over many characteristics of the mainland; classism, drug use and revolutionaries.
the island is blatantly classist. the first-boaters are gifted with living a life that does not seem too different than the one they lived on the mainland. they can go to school, they can have homes and they can have real food.
the last boaters struggle everyday to get by. they live on fake cheese, jellyfish steak, low education and even lower living standards.
all in all, north's dystopian vision is leering, logical and alarming.
the main character, a young last-boater named darcy
must tackle all of life's challenges
in order to find her mother, who disappears after a stranger visits their
yellow-stained apartment to speak with her in hushed tones.
little does she know,
she will soon be a heroine.
north has created a tale worth pondering
filled with pain, revolutions, hope, grief and the best/worst of humankind.
"He said that living the way we used to - trying to shape the world rather than letting it shape us - he thought that was what got us into the Ice Age in the first place"
- North, America Pacifica
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