Title: Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Author: Philip K. Dick
Genre: Sci-fi, Dystopian Fiction
Jason Taverner is a well known TV personality and singer with 30 million viewers, at least he was until he woke up in a run down hotel without any of his ID cards. Living in a police state, failure to produce identification at one of the numerous police checkpoints would lead to imprisonment in a forced labor camp. He remains calm given his circumstances afterall his is a "Six", a member of an elite class of genetically engineered humans. He phones his mangager and a friend but they both claim to not know who he is, no one does. He needs the ID cards to go anywhere and therefore he finds a forger to make him some. He falls under the scruitiny of the L.A. police. He struggles with his identity and reality , and the reader is taken on a nerve wrecking experience. The main character isn' t very likeable, a bit racist, sexist, and pompous; you almost don't care what happens to him. The idea of the story is interesting and I was in suspense to find out what was going to happen but not for the faint of heart.
TW: this book contains some racist points of view from the main character, incest, and the consenting age was 12 (very unsettling).
- Gina
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