"The year is 2038, and the formerly bustling town of Three Rivers, Texas, is a surreal wasteland. Under the authoritarian thumb of its tech industrialist mayor, Pablo Henry Crick, the town has outlawed reading and forced most of the town s mothers to work as indentured laborers at the Big Tex Fish Cannery, which poisons the atmosphere and lines Crick s pockets. Scraping by in this godforsaken landscape are best friends Prosperina and Neftal©Øi the latter of whom, one of the town s last literate citizens, hides and reads the books of the mysterious renegade author Jazzmin Monelle Rivas, whose last novel, Brother Bront©·e, is finally in Neftal©Øi s possession. But after a series of increasingly violent atrocities committed by Crick s forces, Neftal©Øi and Prosperina, with the help of a wounded bengal tigress, three scheming triplets, and an underground network of rebel t©Øias, rise up to reclaim their city and in the process, unlock Rivas s connection to Three Rivers itself."--Goodreads.