To get the treatment that will save his life, Polly agrees to enter into a contract with the TimeRaiser corporation, travelling twelve years into the future and working off her subsequent debt to the company. The couple get stuck in Texas, and Frank becomes infected. The year is 1981 and a pandemic is sweeping America.
The novel follows twentysomething Polly - a furniture upholsterer - and her bartender boyfriend Frank, who are madly in love. Toronto writer Thea Lim taps into this trend with her timely debut, An Ocean of Minutes, which draws on the best of old and new CanLit traditions. In the age of widespread refugee crises, weather events, data mining, corporate greed and totalitarian politics, dystopian narratives are very much on the brain.
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