01907nam a2200325u  4500001001100000003000700011005001700018007000300035008004100038010001500079020001800094040002300112042000800135050002600143082001600169100003800185245004200223250002800265260005000293264001200343300002900355336002100384337002500405338002300430520102300453650002901476650002701505650002701532650002201559900030923 OCoLC 20190501234218.0ta151010t20152015nyu           000 1 eng    a2015016476  a9780385540353  aDLCbengerdacDLC  apcc00aPR9199.3.A8bH43 201500a813/.542231 aAtwood, Margaret,d1939-eauthor.14aThe heart goes lastcMargaret Atwood.  aFirst American edition. 1aNew York :bNan A. Talese, Doubleday,c[2015] 4c♭2015  axii, 308 pages ;c25 cm.  atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier  aStan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around and fast. The Positron Project in the town of Consilience seems to be the answer to their prayers. No one is unemployed and everyone gets a comfortable, clean house to live in for six months out of the year. On alternating months, residents of Consilience must leave their homes and function as inmates in the Positron prison system. Once their month of service in the prison is completed, they can return to their "civilian" homes.  At first, this doesn't seem like too much of a sacrifice to make in order to have a roof over one's head and food to eat. But when Charmaine becomes romantically involved with the man who lives in their house during the months when she and Stan are in the prison, a series of troubling events unfolds, putting Stan's life in danger. 0aMarried peoplevFiction. 0aHomelessnessvFiction. 0aUnemploymentvFiction. 0aPrisonsvFiction.