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Book Review | The Ones We're Meant to Find

The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He is a poetic work of eco-fiction that’s told from the alternating perspectives of two sisters trying to cross the ocean that divides them. Cee: It’s been three years since Cee washed ashore an island. She has no recollection of how got there or much of her life before. All she knows is that she has a sister named Kay and that she must get back to her. Kay: Kay is an antisocial STEM prodigy who lives in a high-tech eco-city—one of the last safe havens from the effects of climate change. Following her sister’s disappearance, she tries to retrace Cee’s footsteps and figure out what made her to leave in the first place. Overall, asides from Cee’s struggle to survive on and leave the island, I found the technology aspects of the book to be the most interesting part of the story. Joan He introduces some really cool conceptual ideas here that remind me of Black Mirror . For instance, the citizens of eco-cities live out the non-essential parts of their ...