Necessary Beggar
The great modern SF novel of the immigrant experience, as timely today as it was on its first publication, Susan Palwick's The Necessary BeggarLemabantunk, the Glorious City, is a place of peace and…
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The great modern SF novel of the immigrant experience, as timely today as it was on its first publication, Susan Palwick's The Necessary BeggarLemabantunk, the Glorious City, is a place of peace and plenty, bejeweled streets and glittering waterfalls. It is also a place of severe justice. Darroti, a young merchant, has been accused of the brutal murder of a highborn woman. Now, in keeping with his world's customs, his entire family must share in his punishment: exile to the unknown world that lies beyond a mysterious gate.Passing through the gate, and grieving for the life they left behind, Darroti and his family find themselves in a harsh and hostile land: America just a few years hence. Unable to explain their origin, they're rapidly remanded to a desert internment camp along with thousands of other refugees. There they struggle to make sense of this