{"product_id":"mechanize-my-hands-to-war","title":"Mechanize My Hands to War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Wagner wows in this nuanced look at the implications of AI on humanity...sharply imagined and all too plausible.\" —Publishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe emergence of artificial life intersects with state violence and political extremism in Erin K. Wagner’s rural Appalachia, where startlingly intimate portraits of survival and empathy bloom against a stark backdrop of loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeptember, 2060: Adrian Hall, acting director of the ATF, is holding a press conference. Yes, Eli Whitaker, anti-android demagogue, remains at large, and yes, he is recruiting children into his militia — Adrian is careful not to use the word army. She is careful all the way through the conference, right up until someone asks her about her personal connection to Whitaker; about Trey Caudill, his foster son.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJuly, 2058: Farmers Shay and Ernst, struggling after they discover their GMO crop seeds have failed, hire android employees: Sarah as hospice, and AG-15 to work the now-toxic fields. Under one roof, four lives intertwine in ways no one expects.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJuly, 2060: Special Agent Trey Caudill is leading a raid on Eli Whitaker’s farm when an android, call sign Ora, shoots and kills a child.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarch, 2061: Ora sits in a room. He has been there for seven months, resisting diagnostic tests. He is drawing on the walls, scratching his artificial skin, tracing something over and over and over again with a tired metallic finger. There is nothing wrong with his circuitry, so why does Ora feel so broken?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnflinching yet understated, making expert use of its nonlinear form, Mechanize My Hands to War is at once a study of grief and an ode to the power of self-determination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Federal Street Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44285744709697,"sku":"9780756419349","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/5400\/0961\/files\/9780756419349.jpg?v=1785642623","url":"https:\/\/aralantle.store\/products\/mechanize-my-hands-to-war","provider":"Aralantle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}