2024/086: Liberty's Daughter — Naomi Kritzer

2024/086: Liberty's Daughter — Naomi Kritzer

When someone's locked away for doing the right thing, that makes them a prisoner of conscience. Not merely a grounded teenager. [p. 62]

Beck Garrison lives on a seastead off the west coast of the USA: her father is an influential member of the community, and Beck's mother died in a car crash before they left California. Beck is sixteen and earns pocket money by working as a seeker: she takes requests for things that people want, and sources them from other inhabitants of the seastead. One day, trying to locate a pair of sparkly sandals, size eight, she's asked instead to discover what happened to a bond worker's missing sister. ( Read more... )