(Because it is a tattoo those who are marked by it come to be called “inks.”) Restrictions, including “English-only” ones, are imposed and escalate until life becomes a series of “bad” and “worse” choices for the protagonists. As the novel opens, a biometric tattoo has been instituted for temporary workers, immigrants with permanent resident status, and citizens with too-recent immigration history. Ink is a novel that combines dystopia, literary fiction and magic realism. She writes speculative fiction and poetry and also runs the blog, Following the Lede.Ī. Vourvoulias has worked mostly in newspapers and serves as managing editor of Al Día News Media, the Spanish-language newspaper in Philadelphia. She grew up in Guatemala and moved to the United States as a teenager. Her newly released novel, Ink, explores the topic under the science fiction genre. Sabrina Vourvoulias has taken on the immigration issue with an intriguing twist.
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