For concealing his identity, for protecting the man she loves, she is ostracized from her community, vilified. Set in a future America where theocracy reigns, abortion is murder and privacy a thing of the past, Jordan's second novel is a dystopian reimaging of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 classic, "The Scarlet Letter." Hannah has had an affair with a married preacher and ended her pregnancy because genetic tests will reveal his identity, stalling his ascending career. She is "Chromed," marked as a criminal, and forced to navigate society in skin the vibrant primary shade of murderers. The woman is Hannah Payne, a churchgoing Texan who, after having an illegal abortion, is administered a skin pigment-altering virus by the state. "Not flushed," Hillary Jordan writes, "not sunburned, but the solid, declarative red of a stop sign."
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