One Grain of Sand

"A character-driven SF tale that's both riveting and frighteningly plausible." - Kirkus Reviews


"…Supremely intense and fantastically imaginative…." - Readers' Favorite


The President has made it legal to hunt minorities on weekends.

Healthcare is a game show.

And somewhere in the wreckage of this America, a pickpocket named Noah Harpster just fell in love with the wrong woman.

In this near-future United States, freedom is a prize you compete for on television, human genome experiments have produced tribes of hybrid creatures exiled to the country's edges, and the government's boot presses harder every day. Noah - three-time loser, small-time thief, in the wrong place at the wrong time - never wanted to matter. Then he met her: a biracial climatologist and artist who may be embedded in a radical resistance network. Whose twin sister almost certainly is.

Now someone has put a target on his back, and Noah doesn't even know why.

Part Bradbury, part Ellison, part fever-dream political reckoning - One Grain of Sand asks what ordinary people do when the machinery of their country turns against them. Whether one person, one choice, one grain of sand can shift the whole shore.