01975nam a2200361u 4500 900030923 OCoLC 20190501234218.0 ta 151010t20152015nyu 000 1 eng 2015016476 9780385540353 DLC eng rda DLC pcc PR9199.3.A8 H43 2015 813/.54 23 Atwood, Margaret, 1939- author. The heart goes last Margaret Atwood. First American edition. New York : Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, [2015] ♭2015 xii, 308 pages ; 25 cm. text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Stan 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. Married people Fiction. Homelessness Fiction. Unemployment Fiction. Prisons Fiction. 2 24274 24274 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2017-01-19 3 2 ATWO 35550 2021-07-21 2021-06-25 26.95 2017-01-19 BOOK