This Great Hemisphere

Sweetmint is invisible, just like 40 percent of the population. They are oppressed by the Dominant Population at every turn, but Sweetmint hopes that her internship with one of the inventors of the system under which they live will demonstrate what her peoples are capable of. Instead, she learns that she has been elevated just so she can be struck down. When her brother is falsely accused of murder to cover up a political assassination, Sweetmint is forced to run for her life, sending her straight into the arms of a revolution that may, or may not, be capable of dismantling all of the levers of power that have been engineered to keep her people down. Using invisibility as a metaphor for various forms of division and repression, this novel sets multiple narratives on parallel tracks; Sweetmint’s quest for justice is juxtaposed with the real assassin’s revenge motives even as the villainous plots of those in power are set against the rhetoric of the revolutionary underground.