Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge
Convicted of a crime she did not commit, former Hope child Jackal serves a terrible solitary imprisonment sentence and is eventually abandoned in a strange country where other people like herself help her learn the truth about her imprisonment.
Jackal Segura is a Hope: born to responsibility and privilege as a symbol of a fledgling world government. Soon she’ll become part of the global administration, sponsored by the huge corporation that houses, feeds, employs, and protects her and everyone she loves. Then, just as she discovers that everything she knows is a lie, she becomes a pariah, a murderer: a person with no community and no future. Grief-stricken and alone, she is put into an experimental program designed to inflict the experience of years of solitary confinement in a few short months: virtual confinement in a sealed cell within her own mind. Afterward, branded and despised, she returns to a world she no longer knows. Struggling to make her way, she has a chance to rediscover her life, her love, and her soul—in a strange place of shattered hopes and new beginnings called Solitaire.
Representation Includes
- Latina lesbian protagonist
- Lesbian love interest
Content Warnings
Torture via solitary confinement; murder; mass death; themes of lonelinessAwards
- Nebula Award nominee
- Gaylactic Spectrum Award nominee
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Details
- Published September 1st 2002 by Eos; reissued 2011 by Small Beer Press
- Paperback ISBN13: 9780060086602