Shes happiest when playing the guitar, shes falling in love for the first time, and shes joining her friends to protest the wrongs of the world: environmental collapse, social discrimination, and political injustice. Agent: Barry Goldblatt, Barry Goldblatt Literary. When we wake by Karen Healey Sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl living in 2027. Healey doesn’t make her points about social justice and activism through big, flashy moments the story’s injustices unfold in a way that’s stark and unvarnished, and Tegan’s determination to right the wrongs she finds will hit home with readers. The diversity of the cast is authentic and natural, from the lesbian and transgendered friends Tegan makes to her love interest, a brusque Somali classmate with secrets of his own. Healey (The Shattering) constructs a very persuasive future world, whose technology, slang, hyperconnectivity, and climatic peril are smartly extrapolated from contemporary society (meat consumption is heavily taxed, drugs are regulated and safe, and Australia has a strict “No Migrant” policy in place). The big question, both for readers and for Tegan: why has she been revived? The answer, which is gradually revealed through Tegan’s confessional-style narration, demonstrates that, despite technological and other advances, human greed, corruption, and self-interest persist across the centuries. Awakening from cryogenic stasis 100 years after being accidentally shot by a sniper, 16-year-old Tegan Oglietti must adjust to a new life in 22nd-century Australia.
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