I don't even know where to start. Rivers Solomon is effing brilliant. They bring rich, diverse, and generally atypical characters to the page and set these characters in an equally rich world that makes you examine the ways that society functions, and the extremes that we can end up at when we take some things to their logical conclusion. If you've ever wondered what the next chapter of humanity might look like after we destroy our own planet, here's one rendering of it.

I LOVED the characters in this books in all their complexities and quirks. Solomon managed to make them recognizable but not predictable in the same way they have done in writing this story. I got to the last chapter, the last few pages, the last paragraph, without being able to even conceive of what might be coming next in the story.

So good.