THE MEASURE OF MAN AND ANGELS, an upmarket speculative novel
When love and purpose demand opposite loyalties, what do you choose?
There are moments when a single life unspools into something larger than itself, and afterward nothing is ever the same.
Long ago, at the end of the world, man's arrogance brought ruin upon the land. The seas rose and swallowed the coasts, fields surrendered their harvests, and the sun withheld its rays. And so the Earth's Regenesis was established, and two great farms were raised in lands once called the Americas, one to the north and one to the south, each one divided into twelve identical grids. Vast, perfectly square monoliths, sealed and shining, rising up out of the earth like things dreamed of rather than built. Inside their walls, food grew. Inside their walls, the future was kept alive.
For generations, children were born beneath those walls believing their lives belonged to that promise. Sidra was one of them. A mother, a citizen, and a faithful servant of the Earth's Regenesis, she has devoted her life to the work of saving the world. But when her friend’s son disappears, she uncovers deception and deflection that shakes the certainty which has guided her entire life. And as impossible truths emerge and the system she has trusted turns against those she loves, Sidra must decide whether a world sustained by sacrifice can ever truly be called salvation.
