She awoke in a dark alley, hurt and alone. She had no one to turn to and no where to go. A stranger took her in, healed her wounds, and gave her an entirely new life. Technology, as advanced as it was, could not alter human emotion, in its rawest form, the emotion of betrayal. Lore felt she had been abandoned by her family in her darkest hour of need.
Slow River is a novel with a mix of technological wonders and their effects on the human condition.
From enormous tragedies when the wrong chemicals are used in the complictaed water purification procedure to the age-old problems of power and money and the desire for more of both in the hands of the wrong people, Lore finally realized the game was vast and everyone had their role in it, merely a role.