"In the former United States, sixteen-year-old Noam ?lvaro wakes up in a hospital bed, the sole survivor of the viral magic that killed his family and made him a technopath. His ability to control technology attracts the attention of the minister of defense and thrusts him into the magical elite of the nation of Carolina. The son of undocumented immigrants, Noam has spent his life fighting for the rights of refugees fleeing magical outbreaks--refugees Carolina routinely deports with vicious efficiency.Sensing a way to make change, Noam accepts the minister's offer to teach him the science behind his magic, secretly planning to use it against the government. But then he meetsthe minister's son--cruel, dangerous, and achingly beautiful--and the way forward becomes less clear"--Publisher.
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call number/section: 1000, 1
subjects: psychics, fiction, magic, resistance to government, refugees, fantasy fiction, dystopian fiction, fantasy fiction, dystopian fiction
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Lee, Victoria
In a post-apocalyptic United States, sixteen-year-old Noam ?lvaro gains the power of a technopath--the ability to control technology--after a viral magic killed his immigrant family and put him in a hospital. Carolina's minister of defense recruits Noam because of his abilities, and seeing a chance to affect change for the undocumented immigrant community, which is subject to brutal treatment under Carolina's government, Noam agrees, secretly hoping to use the minister's technology against them. But when Noam meets the minister's dangerous, impossibly alluring son, Dara, Noam's mission becomes muddled.
Schools: 26
Lee, Victoria
"In the former United States, sixteen-year-old Noam ?lvaro wakes up in a hospital bed, the sole survivor of the viral magic that killed his family and made him a technopath. His ability to control technology attracts the attention of the minister of defense and thrusts him into the magical elite of the nation of Carolina. The son of undocumented immigrants, Noam has spent his life fighting for the rights of refugees fleeing magical outbreaks--refugees Carolina routinely deports with vicious efficiency.Sensing a way to make change, Noam accepts the minister's offer to teach him the science behind his magic, secretly planning to use it against the government. But then he meetsthe minister's son--cruel, dangerous, and achingly beautiful--and the way forward becomes less clear"--Publisher.
Schools: 4