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2054, Part IV: A Nation Divided
“The people are in the streets. We can’t ignore them any longer. Really, we have little choice. Either we heal together, or we tear ourselves apart.” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
James Mohammad understood Lily Bao’s personal story, how two decades before she and her mother had fled to America as war refugees, and how the regime in Beijing had scapegoated her father, a onetime diplomat and senior military officer, murdering him and leaving his memory disgraced. Hunt placed a paper cup of coffee in his hand, and the two of them gathered up a half dozen binders as the sun breached the horizon, falling on the South Lawn and an encampment of Truthers that had occupied the green around the Washington Monument. President Smith thumbed through the binders noncommittally: two governors of small states; a senator who’d lost reelection; one retired and relatively obscure admiral; one former ambassador; the CEO of a midsize company who’d served a term in Congress a decade ago.
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