Failed State: A Novel YAF066000 It is the beginning of

It is the beginning of a friendship that will inexorably shape both women as they embark on the rocky road to adulthood

And she’s a perpetual disappointment to her traditional Japanese parents

led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman

But then the girl’s ghost appears

Jaslene instead pours all of her energy into caring for her now-motherless niece and running the wedding planning company she and her sister had built

Failed State: A Novel YAF066000 It is the beginning ofA Philip K. Dick Award Nominee "The novel is as tense and thrilling as any of Brown's work, and as full of rage and hope. It's a novel that truly reckons with the enormity of both our climate emergency and the system that produced it a tale of human imperfection and redemption." Cory Doctorow, bestselling author of Walkaway In this second dystopian legal thriller from the author of the acclaimed Rule of Capture and Tropic of Kansas, lawyer Donny Kimoe