The Other Place

Alison awakens one night to the sounds of someone pounding on the door of her family's apartment - and nothing is ever the same again. It's black-uniformed heavies from the World Government who have come to arrest her whole family, punishment for her activist parents' alleged "crimes of subversion" against the World Government. Banished to a penal colony in the anonymous Habitat W, Alison, her parents and her beloved eight-year-old brother, Gordie, join the shadowy ranks of the "disappeareds," their very existence erased from the Government rolls. 194 pages.