Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the
midst of economic and social collapse. Living in their car, surviving on
tips from Charmaine's job at a dive bar, they're increasingly
vulnerable to roving gangs and in a rather desperate state. So when they
see an advertisement for the Positron Project in the town of
Consilience - a 'social experiment' offering stable jobs and a home of
their own - they sign up immediately.
All they have to do in
return for this suburban paradise is give up their freedom every second
month, swapping their home for a prison cell. At first, all is well. But
slowly, unknown to the other, Stan and Charmaine develop a passionate
obsession with their counterparts, the couple that occupy their home
when they are in prison.
Soon the pressures of conformity,
mistrust, guilt and sexual desire take over, and Positron looks less
like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled.
The Heart Goes Last - Margaret Atwood
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