![]() ![]() Wen gradually sheds her prejudices after she inadvertently contributes to an accident involving a Noor worker and the Ghost, a Phantom of the Opera–like presence who grants the wishes of Gochan’s people in sometimes-horrific ways. Meanwhile, the factory is wracked with ethnic tension between Wen’s people, the East Asian–inspired Itanyai, and the Noor, despised migrant workers. ![]() There, Wen is subject to the constant threat of sexual coercion, especially when she wears the richly embroidered dresses that remind her of her late seamstress mother. Sixteen-year-old Wen has recently come to live with her father, a doctor at the Gochan factories. She centers her tale of forbidden love and social awakening on a single industrial complex, where brutal bosses control workers by keeping them permanently in debt. In contrast to dystopian novels with world-shaking stakes, Fine (the Guards of the Shadowlands series) focuses on a detailed microcosm within an unjust society. ![]()
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