{"product_id":"9780998705996","title":"Ink","description":"What happens when rhetoric about immigrants escalates to an institutionalized population control system? The near-future, dark speculative novel INK opens as a biometric tattoo is approved for use to mark temporary workers, permanent residents and citizens with recent immigration history - collectively known as inks.\u003cp\u003eSet in a fictional city and small, rural town in the U.S. during a 10-year span, the novel is told in four voices: a journalist; an ink who works in a local population control office; an artist strongly tied to a specific piece of land; and a teenager whose mother runs an inkatorium (a sanitarium-internment center opened in response to public health concerns about inks).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe main characters grapple with ever-changing definitions of power, home and community; relationships that expand and complicate their lives; personal magicks they don't fully understand; and perceptions of \"otherness\" based on ethnicity, language, class and inclusion. In this world, the protagonists' magicks serve and fail, as do all other systems - government, gang, religious organization - until only two things alone stand: love and memory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rosarium Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021423984880,"sku":"9780998705996","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780998705996_p0.jpg?v=1763945349","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780998705996","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}