JOY

<p><strong>What would you give up to experience perfect Joy?</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A hurricane strikes the Elysium Spa and a gentle android named Tender can only save one of his guests - a fifteen-year-old girl named Virgo. She has the innocence of an infant - the Spa guests are born reproduce and die in scientifically calibrated baths that keep them in a state of perpetual ecstasy called Joy. She has never walked or spoken or had a cogent thought.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tender's sole purpose is to return Virgo to the state of bliss that is her birthright. He takes her on a journey across a post-apocalyptic American landscape depopulated by war famine and plague.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As Tender and Virgo struggle to survive they come face to face with what it means to be a human on this earth. And they face a choice - embrace this painful beautiful world or return Virgo to an existence of mindless but perfect Joy.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>JOY is lyrical post-apocalyptic fiction at it's best. A thrilling adventure a coming of age story and a profound exploration into what it means to be happy and what it means to be human.</span></p>