December 2036. Ruth Polyansky stands in a long soup line. She�s hungry, it�s cold, and homelessness doesn�t get any easier after two decades. Finally, when she�s almost about to get her meal, Ruth sees that the volunteer serving the homeless is one of the hated, disgusting bjoite aliens. She can�t stomach that. She�d rather starve. But Ruth�s shadows are catching up with her, and she must relive memories from a time when she hunted and killed�rabbits, ducks, and a bjoite. Her recollections focus on a dinner she cooked and served one long-ago evening. That fateful meal also meant the end of the line for her husband, a bus driver. Other bjoite approach. What happens to Ruth when they find her? Can she make a new beginning? Where will the next meal come from? Find out.
