In the Upper Country: A Novel Sociology of Class Because what the world needs

Because what the world needs is people who have come alive

But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit

and Ani is forced to reveal just how important swimming is to her

Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s magnetic story collection breathes life into her Indigenous Latina characters and the land they inhabit

very little in this saga is exactly as it seems

In the Upper Country: A Novel Sociology of Class Because what the world needsThe fates of two unforgettable womenone just beginning a journey of reckoning and self discovery and the other completing her life's last vital actintertwine in this sweeping, powerful novel set at the terminus of the Underground Railroad. In the 1800s in Dunmore, a Canadian town settled by people fleeing enslavement in the American south, young Lensinda Martin works for a crusading Black journalist. One night, a neighboring farmer summons Lensinda