Others of My Kind

At age eight, Jenny Rowan was abducted and kept for two years in a box
beneath her captor's bed. Eventually she escaped and, after living for
eighteen months on cast-offs at the local mall, was put into the
child-care system. Suing for emancipation, at age sixteen she became a
legal adult. Nowadays she works as a production editor for the local
public TV station, and is one of the world's good people. One evening
she returns home to find a detective waiting for her. Though her records
are sealed, he somehow knows her story. He asks if she can help with a
young woman who, like her many years before, has been abducted and
traumatised. Initially hesitant, Jenny decides to get involved, reviving
buried memories and setting in motion an unexpectedchain of events. As
brilliantly spare and compact as all of James Sallis's novels, Others of
My Kind stands apart for its female protagonist. Set in a near future
of political turmoil, it is a story of how we overcome, how we shape
ourselves by what happens to us, and of how the human spirit, whatever
horrors it undergoes, will not be put down.