Solitaire

<div><b>The basis for the movie <i>OtherLife</i> · A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book · Nebula Endeavour and Spectrum Award finalist</b><br></div><div>"A stylistic and psychological tour de force."-<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></div><div>"Suspenseful and inspiring."—<i>School Library Journal</i><br></div><div>Jackal
 Segura is a Hope: born to responsibility and privilege as a symbol of a
 fledgling world government. Soon she'll become part of the global 
administration sponsored by the huge corporation that houses feeds 
employs and protects her and everyone she loves. Then just as she 
discovers that everything she knows is a lie she becomes a pariah a 
murderer: a person with no community and no future. Grief-stricken and 
alone she is put into an experimental program designed to inflict the 
experience of years of solitary confinement in a few short months: 
virtual confinement in a sealed cell within her own mind. Afterward 
branded and despised she returns to a world she no longer knows. 
Struggling to make her way she has a chance to rediscover her life her
 love and her soul—in a strange place of shattered hopes and new 
beginnings called Solitaire.<br><br><b>Kelley Eskridge</b> is a 
novelist essayist and screenwriter. Her stories have received the 
Astraea Award and been adapted for television and film. She lives in Seattle with her partner novelist Nicola Griffith.<br></div>