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“…Riveting and frighteningly plausible.” — Kirkus Reviews

“…Intense and fantastically imaginative…” —Readers’ Favorite

“…Conveys sensations that most stories rush past. —Literary Titan

Welcome to the United States of 2096.

Freedom is something you win on television. Dissent earns you an internment camp, a reprogramming ward, or a disappearance so quiet even your family stops asking. And the boot on your throat has a flag stitched into the leather.

They made it legal to hunt Black citizens on Saturdays. They turned healthcare into a game show. They spliced the human genome until it wept strange, shunned tribes onto the ruined edges of the republic.

Noah Harpster doesn’t care about any of it. Three-time felon, full-time pickpocket, professional ghost—he has spent his whole life perfecting the art of not mattering. Stay small, stay slippery, stay alive.

Then he meets Parlisse.

She is a beautiful, biracial climatologist and painter, navigating a nation that has sharpened every old cruelty into policy. She may also be tangled in a resistance network so dangerous that loving her is an act of war. Her twin sister, meanwhile, works the same system keeping everyone in check. 

Now someone has put a target on Noah’s back—and he doesn’t even know why.

In a world that rewards silence with survival, Noah Harpster is about to become very, very loud.

Part Bradbury, part Ellison, part fever-dream political reckoning — One Grain of Sand asks what ordinary people do when the machinery of their country turns against them. Whether one person, one choice, one grain of sand can shift the whole shore.

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