Set in a future northern Alberta in a remote enclave, after climate change has had a catastrophic effect on our planet and the people left to live on it, this is a book that packs a lot into its slim volume. Reid is a young woman, living as a host to a genetic, sentient fungal parasite. She’s also just been accepted to a mysterious university that supposedly offers an existence more akin to “back then” before the world changed forever. But does it? I actually have to read the second installment to find out.