The Warehouse

Author: Bea Oertel
Editor: Francesca
Publisher: Friesen Press
Publication date: October 2024

The Warehouse is a young adult science fiction novel set about 100 years in the future in a city somewhere in North America. Wars and drought have turned the land into a desert. Food is scarce and a tyrannical world government is in charge. The plot centres around a young girl, Kim, who escapes a concentration camp and seeks refuge in a safe house on the outskirts of the City. An older lady, Sharon, takes Kim under her wing and strengthens her physically and emotionally. Restored to health, Kim helps Sharon with the distribution of the food harvested in an illegal garden in the attic of the warehouse. Kim becomes active in the resistance against the tyrannical government, even though she is traumatized and fearful of being recaptured. She saves another escapee from the dangerous borgs, hybrid humanoid robots who work for the government.  Sharon takes her young mentees to Eden Valley, where a group of escapees has built a new community which actively resists the dictatorship of the One World Government. On the way to Eden Valley, Kim overcomes her fear of the dark and starts discovering her identity. The novel culminates in Kim rescuing her sister from a forced rehabilitation centre in a daring game of disguise. Kim gets caught and resists the brainwashing strategies of the Government minions by declaring the truth about herself and her loved ones. Will she be able to escape the clutches of the One World Government once more? 

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