A tale set in the year 2021 traces the efforts of a young woman struggling to balance the demands of her attempt to build an infrastructure for Augmented Reality with her resolve to honor her dying Chinese immigrant grandmothers beliefs about ancient magic. By the award-winning author of A Cry of Bees. Traces the efforts of a young woman struggling to balance the demands of her attempt to build an infrastructure for Augmented Reality with her resolve to honor her dying Chinese immigrant grandmothers beliefs about ancient magic. This futuristic novel has all the elements YA fiction needs to draw critical attention from reviewers, and to elicit award-nominations. It is thematically interesting, culturally diverse, well-written, futuristic, and very funny.Set in the year 2021, this fantastic YA novel explores the tension between a young womans future building infrastructure for Augmented Reality, and the commitment she makes to her dying grandmother to honour ancient Chinese magic.The Geomancers Compass imagines a world in the near future while exploring the Chinese immigrant experience and the expanding, elastic and shifting nature of reality.
