After an economic collapse in America, Stan and Charmaine are forced to live in their car, in fear of hijackers and living on Charmaine's meager wages.
They dream of a better life, so when they see an advert for the Positron Project, they go to investigate and have soon signed up to living in Consilience. The living arrangement is that they have possession of their apartment every other month, and when they are not there they are in prison, and their "alternates" live in the apartment.
Sooner or later, both Stan and Charmaine start to wonder, and fantasise about their alternates, and their comfortable lives start to unravel.
I'm a big Margaret Atwood fan, and her dystopian novels are not so very removed from the current world that they are unbelievable, which makes them compelling but uncomfortable reading.
For the record, she's also a great public speaker.
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