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Ink (None)
Ink (None) | Sabrina Vourvoulias
2 posts | 2 read | 9 to read
Her name is Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand glows world-wide welcome. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me." America has lost its way. The strongest of people can be found in the unlikeliest of places. The future of the entire country will depend on them. All across the United States, people scramble to survive new, draconian policies that mark and track immigrants and their children (citizens or not) as their freedoms rapidly erode around them. For the "inked"--those whose immigration status has been permanently tattooed on their wrists--those famous words on the Statue of Liberty are starting to ring hollow. The tattoos have marked them for horrors they could not have imagined within US borders. As the nightmare unfolds before them, unforeseen alliances between the inked--like Mari, Meche, and Toño--and non-immigrants--Finn, Del, and Abbie--are formed, all in the desperate hope to confront it. Ink is the story of their ingenuity. Of their resilience. Of their magic. A story of how the power of love and community out-survives even the grimmest times.
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BekaReid
Ink (None) | Sabrina Vourvoulias
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Ink imagines a near future where immigrants are given color coded tattoos to track them and their status. Released in 2012 but quite timely and frightening under our current administration. Told from multiple perspectives Sabrina Vourvoulias deftly writes of the human heart and its capacities for compassion and sacrifice. I loved how she seamlessly wove magic into the story as well.

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Rabbitandraven
Ink | Sabrina Vourvoulias
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The emotional work that went into reading this story was valuable to me, but the flaws of the storytelling make it hard to recommend it to anyone not specifically looking for near-future dystopian views of immigration policies in the US. I'm inclined to believe that the most unlikeable aspects of the story are commentary and not trope, but it requires giving the author a benefit of the doubt that the narrative does not always earn.