A new year's tale
By: by Nancy Farmer
Publisher: [Nancy Farmer]
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Portal, Arizona
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9781482795660
Subjects: Age discrimination; Fiction; Older blacks; Spirits
Description: "Sometime in the near future, the U.S. government discovers that it doesn't have enough money to cover Social Security and Medicare.  Thus are born the new Senior Laws.  These are aimed at making sure no one lives much past age sixty-five.  The Diminished Culpability Act, for example, states that if you kill someone aged twenty-one, you go to prison for life.  But if you kill a seventy-year-old you only get two years in the slammer and for an eighty-year-old you only have to do two weeks of community service. This has alarmed the spirit world, from where our ancestors watch over us.  In particular, the old gods of Africa are outraged by the lack of respect given to the elderly.  Being spirit, they can do nothing physical, but they can recruit the living.  They select five seniors to correct the situation.  These five must elude capture and figure out a way to take over the government.  The subject is serious, but the story is hopeful, upbeat and wickedly funny. This is an adult book"--
Notes: Self-published by author using Amazon's CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.

A novel.

Also available as an ebook in an Amazon Kindle edition.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: BOOK ONE DISPOSABLE PEOPLE; title: One.Tom Seaworthy; title: Two.Cubby Willows; title: Three.Uncle Shumba; title: Four.The Taco Truck; title: Five.Tom's Retirement Party; title: Six.A Visitor In The Night; title: Seven.Nurse Dee Dee And The Sky Captain; title: Eight.Raptor Mart; title: Nine.Sybille; title: Ten.The Cockroach Experiment; title: Eleven.Joy Meadows; title: Twelve.Noni And Ngwenya; title: Thirteen.Music At Night; title: BOOK TWO A Gathering Of Elders; title: Fourteen.Chupacabras Hospital; title: Fifteen.Frietchie; title: Sixteen.The Secret Of The Seaworthys; title: Seventeen.The Hot Tomato Experiment; title: Eighteen.The Rattlesnake Goddess; title: Nineteen.Uncle Shumba's Solution; title: Twenty.Mr. Yee; title: Twenty-One.The Coffin Ship; title: Twenty-Two.Hungry Ghosts; title: Twenty-Three.The Spirits Arrive; title: Twenty-Four.Cubby Takes Charge; title: BOOK THREE The Net Of Heaven; title: Twenty-Five.The Net Of Heaven; title: Twenty-Six.Chez Frietchie; title: Twenty-Seven.Sanctuary; title: Twenty-Eight.The Corridor To The North; title: BOOK FOUR The Nigh And Far Valley; title: Twenty-Nine.The Nigh And Far Valley; title: Thirty.Tom's Uncle's Cabin; title: Thirty-One.The God Bunker; title: Thirty-Two.Mantis Mind; title: Thirty-Three.Bogomil Slips His Leash; title: Thirty-Four.Cubby Makes A Friend; title: Thirty-Five.The Valley Of Dry Bones; title: Thirty-Six.Dear Avatar; title: Thirty-Seven.The Thunderstorm; title: Thirty-Eight.Forgiveness; title: Thirty-Nine.The Big Wheel And The Little Wheel; title: Forty.Mr. Yee Makes A Mistake; title: Forty-One.Trust In Chickens; title: Forty-Two.Election Night; title: Forty-Three.The Time Out.