![]() ![]() Agent: John Cusick, Folio Jr./Folio Literary Management. ![]() Interweaving Cee’s immediate first-person voice and Kasey’s more removed third-person narration, He crafts an intricate, well-paced rumination on human nature, choice, and consequence. Her immersive second book centers on two sisters separated by an. Banned from science for previously breaking an international law, Kasey nevertheless pursues a lead to access her sister’s memories. That was the origin of Joan He’s stunning new sci-fi novel The Ones We’re Meant to Find. Meanwhile, in the wake of climate disaster, the highest ranked humans-“calculated from the planetary impact” of their behavior and their ancestors’-have moved to eco-cities, “conducting nonessential activities in the holographic mode.” In one such city, Kasey Mizuhara, 16, daughter of an eco-city architect, considers the absence of her sister Celia, 18, recently lost at sea. Carlson says: I think it’s totally cool if we’re going to talk about sex, I’d love to hit some of the fine points of technique, but, you know, but it’s your show. Now, Cee has finally constructed a boat that may give her the chance. She recalls only the absence of her younger sister, Kay, and feeling an impulse to get off the island and find her. Three years prior to the novel’s start, Cee awakens on an abandoned island amnesiac, colorblind, and alone except for a bot. ![]() ![]() In alternating, timeline-shifting chapters, He ( Descendant of the Crane) traces an expansive near-future narrative that centers Asian sisterhood and family. ![]()
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