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When She WokeHillary Jordan,Hillary JordanPublisher: Algonquin BooksSeptember 18 2012EAN: 9781616201937ISBN: 1616201932Items marked as WAREHOUSE may take additional time to be deli vered to your address or picked up in the store.Synopsis: Bellwether Prize winner Hillary Jordan's provocative new novel, When She Woke, tells the story of a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future, where the line between church and state has been eradicated and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned and rehabilitated but chromed--their skin color is genetically altered to match the class of their crimes--and then released back into the population to survive as best they can. Hannah is a Red; her crime is murder. In seeking a path to safety in an alien and hostile world, Hannah unknowingly embarks on a path of self-discovery that forces her to question the values she once held true and the righteousness of a country that politicizes faith. Show more