East

Fourteen-year-old Job Hammon ekes out an itinerant existence in the Pacific Northwest in a not-too-distant future where China and other industrial economies have become primary world powers and the United States has become a fractured post-industrial wasteland. When Job learns that the mother hed thought had died years before had actually left to seek work in Asia he emigrates there in hopes of finding her and finding a better life. Set to a backdrop of such issues as immigration industrialization and climate displacement East offers a harrowing and all-too-possible glimpse at a post-American diaspora struggling to find a new place in the world.