This might be our favorite review of Joel Dane’s THE RAGPICKER so far by Independent Book Review.
The Ragpicker interlaces nature and technology masterfully throughout this tale of existential and spiritual connection. Joel Dane crafts a post-technological apocalypse world that is both lush and dilapidated, full of flora and fauna as well as copper wires and digital networks. There are people who are made to cheat death by bonding with technology, but in turn, the effects reduce them to animal urges. In the war between “us” and “the other,” The Ragpicker explores the urgent need for true connectivity.
Samantha Hui | Indpendent Book Review
The Ragpicker
The Ragpicker wanders the lush, deserted Earth, haunted by failing avatars and fragmented texts. He’s searching for traces of his long-dead husband but his journey is interrupted by a girl, Ysmany, fleeing her remote village. Together they cross the flourishing, treacherous landscape towards sanctuary. Yet the signals and static of the previous age echo in the Ragpicker’s mind and whisper in the girl’s dreams, drawing them toward the gap between map and territory—while offering precious hope.
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