A virus has decimated humanity. It's effect is that people forget how to speak and what things are called or named or what a word means. When affected individuals come to the Center to recuperate, most don't know their names, so they take a name from the weekly movies they view.
These people attend classes that instruct them in what they need to know. Some excel and graduate back into the outside world. Some never again retain the meaning of language and become lifetime inhabitants of the Center. The Center gives them work, classes and a social structure. Newcomers must work to be defined in one of the two main groups; those who go and those who stay.
It seems benevolent but is it? Over time, some try to challenge the rules and the structure and then they find that they are not the free agents they had imagined themselves to be.
Matt Greene is an English author. His first novel, Ostrich, won a Betty Task Award, which is 10,000 pounds and given to a first novel by an author under the age of thirty-five. In this dystopian novel, he explores the meanings of love and friendship and how individuals can be duped into giving up their freedom. This book is recommended for readers of dystopian novels.
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