Publisher's Synopsis
Are you the only you in the world? Massachusetts Department of Doubles social worker Redmond Strawbridge inhabits a reality where that question is not so easily answered. In the near future, following the development of 'doubling wand' technology allowing for the instant duplication of people, society has been thrown into crisis. Living, breathing doppelgangers exist in a world side-by-side with their originals - but as redundant people they have no place to go and form a new disenfranchised class, berated and abused. Radicals on both sides, from the Keatonists who worship duality, to the Anti-Doubling Coalition who wish to stamp it out, are warring in the streets. When Strawbridge meets Annapurna, a 'perfect double, ' unassuming, beautiful, and heartsick, new hope emerges for solving the mystery of the doubles, staunching the supply of doubling wands, and healing an old hurt far back in Strawbridge's past
