![]() ![]() ![]() Sophie spends the entire book trying to escape the glamorous gravity of Bianca. Nowhere is this better exemplified than in Sophie and Bianca’s complex and toxic dynamic, in which Bianca uses Sophie’s trauma as political capital and Sophie must learn the agony of putting up necessary personal boundaries. ![]() In City in the Middle of the Night, Anders examines the inextricability of the personal and the political. ![]() While there, she meets and falls for upper-class Bianca, an aspiring revolutionary who is more interested in what rebellion says about her than in how it might change the world. On January, humans live in one of two declining cities (mostly) situated in the light: The rigid, oppressive Xiosphant, where people say things like “Heed the chimes, know your way,” and the more laissez faire Argelo, run by nine family-affiliated gangs, keeping the city in a perpetual cycle of violence.īoth cities have devastating class systems, hierarchies that continue to be informed by the dominant cultures of the generation ship that first brought humanity to January. In Xiosphant, we meet POV character Sophie, a young woman from the working class side of town studying at the city’s university. ![]()
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