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The novel begins with Grant Cannon-Chastanet looking back on his daughter’s childhood in AutoAmerica. Born into a society starkly divided between an elite “Netted” class and a hyper-consuming “Surplus” underclass, Gwen is a Surplus kid whose greatest gift is throwing. Years of competitive automation and corporate-government control led to increased restrictions on AutoAmericans, and sports like baseball had been disbanded for decades. Fearing the government’s watchful eye through the Internet-like “spy network” known as Aunt Nettie, Grant and his wife Eleanor nonetheless encouraged Gwen to pitch in their backyard, recruiting a neighborhood girl named Ondi to play catcher.

Narrating in the first-person from an unknown point in time, Grant recounts the early, idyllic days of Gwen’s childhood. His narration describes how he came to realize that Gwen possessed a gift for baseball, mixed with references to the larger forces of automation, climate change, and government surveillance that led to increased restrictions on individuals. These changes divided society into two distinct classes, the Netted and the Surplus. Grant and his family, the Cannon-Chastanets, belong to the Surplus class.


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