About this Book

The basis for the movie OtherLife · A New York Times Notable Book · Nebula, Endeavour, and Spectrum Award finalist
"A stylistic and psychological tour de force."--The New York Times Book Review "Suspenseful and inspiring."--School Library Journal
JackalSegura is a Hope: born to responsibility and privilege as a symbol of afledgling world government. Soon she'll become part of the globaladministration, sponsored by the huge corporation that houses, feeds,employs, and protects her and everyone she loves. Then, just as shediscovers that everything she knows is a lie, she becomes a pariah, amurderer: a person with no community and no future. Grief-stricken andalone, she is put into an experimental program designed to inflict theexperience of years of solitary confinement in a few short months:virtual confinement in a sealed cell within her own mind. Afterward,branded and despised, she returns to a world she no longer knows.Struggling to make her way, she has a chance to rediscover her life, herlove, and her soul--in a strange place of shattered hopes and newbeginnings called Solitaire.

Kelley Eskridge is anovelist, essayist, and screenwriter. Her stories have received theAstraea Award and been adapted for television and film. She lives in Seattle with her partner, novelist Nicola Griffith.