Poor Relations

Hardcover | 5 March 2018

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"Haunting character complexity that ultimately holds the reader captive to the tale." -N. K. Jemisin, New York Times, on My Real Children

Described by Jo Walton as "Mansfield Park on Mars," Poor Relations is an eye-opening exploration of social and financial precarity, brilliantly imagined and deeply pertinent to today

"When it came down to it, you couldn't legislate against the economics of sex and gender any more than you could legislate against people being poor."

It's the twenty-fourth century. Humanity has spread throughout the solar system-but for most of us, life is as precarious as it was in Dickensian England. Brothers Achille, Marcantonio, and Nore have been raised rich, but after their father spends the family fortune and puts a laser to his head, they're forced to face facts. The wealthy Luke Bailey is willing to pay top dollar for what's left of their estate, enough to buy Achille a commission in the space Navy. But only if Marcantonio and Nore will both become female-Marcantonio to marry Luke, and Nore to be their spinster housekeeper, for as long as Luke lives.

Over the next two decades, the now-female Marcantonio and Nore struggle to make lives for themselves in the service of their wealthy keeper. Then the alien invasion arrives.

Industry Reviews

"Haunting character complexity that ultimately holds the reader captive to the tale." --N. J. Jemisin, New York Times, on My Real Children

"A spectacular coming-of-age tale that encompasses everything from courtroom dramas to sexual intrigue." --Cory Doctorow on The Just City

"Brilliant, compelling, and, frankly, unputdownable." --NPR on The Just City

"Most fantasies evade [the] great and challenging opportunities to make the implausible plausible, to give magic accountability in a realistic setting and moral and emotional weight in a modern novel. Jo Walton accepts the double challenge and meets it with courage and skill." --Ursula K. Le Guin on Among Others

"Has as much in common with an Alice Munro story as it does with, say, Philip K. Dick. Good novels show us a character's destiny as an expression of who they fundamentally are. What most novels do only once, My Real Children does twice." --Lev Grossman on My Real Children

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