- American literature, Fiction, dystopian, Fiction, science fiction, general, Rich people
A science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that at turns seduces and startles. To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of your service. To be a Docile is to sell yourself to pay your parents' debts and buy your children's future.
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Contemporary, grave, overwhelming and bleak.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- K. M. Szpara
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 496
- Publisher
- Tor.com, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom, Tordotcom
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781250216151
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