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Army
Author_J. M. Holmes
Black
Black Liberation
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Chicago
displacement
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extremism
miltancy
neocolonialism
pre-apocalyptic
resistance
resource scarcity
Product details
- ISBN 9781945335495
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 09 Apr 2026
- Publisher: Common Notions
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A novel about family, scarcity, and what it means to sell out as the world ends. The world hasn’t quite ended, but it’s getting there. Me and Mine imagines a not-so-distant future on the pre-apocalyptic shores of Lake Michigan. The West has dried up, the watershed has been contaminated, and water scarcity has driven most of the population inward from the coasts. Here, real estate interests run rampant and the possibility of snagging a house close enough to the Great Lakes to get fresh water has realigned global financial interests. And, as always, the working class is being pushed aside to make way for white and wealthy newcomers. Amidst the chaos, three brothers try to navigate this swiftly changing landscape. As one seeks influence in politics, the younger two are drawn into the dangerous, shadowy world of private security and militias. In the precarious new world that these three brothers navigate, J. M. Holmes offers a grim yet familiar future in which scarcity fuels resentment, resentment sparks extremism, and extremism ignites around the racial tensions of our present.
J. M. Holmes was born in Denver and raised in Rhode Island. He is the winner of the Burnett Howe Prize for fiction, the Henfield prize for literature, and a Pushcart prize.
