This creates a huge class divide centered around a global climate crisis, which is.uncomfortably real. The people with the smallest carbon footprint get privileges others don’t, but sometimes, as we find out later in the book, people with enough money can cover up their misdeeds.
While Kay and Cee’s family have the money and power to live in a floating city, plenty of people don’t, and through no fault of their own.Įvery person in the world has a ranking determined by how much they or their family has polluted the earth. Well, the people who can afford to leave Earth, that is. Instead of continuing to live on the dangerous, uninhabitable world, people have taken to the skies in flying cities. Essentially, the world is overpopulated and polluted, making living on the surface of Earth nearly impossible. Mary: There’s no getting around the fact that The Ones We’re Meant to Find is about climate change in a very real way. So I commend you for getting a lot of info out there about the book without giving anything huge away! But as you said, we can’t promise that moving forward! We’re going into spoilers now. I say that because I feel like this is one of those books that’s super difficult to talk about in detail without spoiling. But, yeah, Mary, that was a really good summary of the book. (Needless to say, spoilers will follow for The Ones We’re Meant to Find.)Įmily: No, I never read Descendant of the Crane. Joan He has one other novel, Descendant of the Crane, which I’ve never read, have you?
Kay teams up with someone from Cee’s past in order to find out more about her missing sister, but she’s not ready for the answers she’ll find. Kay knows that Cee loved the world outside their city in the sky, but she didn’t know just how far Cee would go to leave it. She remembers almost nothing, but she does know that she has a sister named Kay that she wants–needs– to find. Cee woke up on an island with nothing but her wits and a dictionary robot companion to help her. Mary: So The Ones We’re Meant to Find is about two sisters, Cee and Kay, who desperately want to find each other. We were drawn in by the cover but we stayed for the wild sci-fi ride. We picked this novel in part because of its gorgeous cover by Turkish artist Aykut Aydoğdu. This month we read The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He, a novel about sisterhood, memory, and identity.
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