Lives Less Valuable

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A city is in despair, rivers are dying, children have cancer. Vexcorp counts these lives an another expense on a balance sheet. But that is about to change. Malia is an activist who fiercely fights these atrocities. She's lost faith in the possibility of systematic reform. Dennis is a lawyer who believes that if enough people are informed, they will do the right thing. Eddie is a young street thug torn by grief over his sister's death. Larry Gordon is Vexcorp's CEO. Their lives converge in a tale of morality, survival, agency and despair.

Derrick Jensen is a teacher, an activist, and the author of The Culture of Make Believe, Endgame, and A Language Older Than Words. He lives in Crescent City, California.

Derrick Jensen is a public intellectual who both breaks and mends the reader's heart. --Frances Moore Lappe, author, Diet for a Small Planet Derrick Jensen is a man driven to stare without flinching at the baleful design of our culture . . . His analysis of our culture's predilection for hatred and destruction will rattle your bones. --Daniel Quinn, author, Ishmael Derrick Jensen is a rare and original voice of sanity in a chaotic world. He has wisdom and wit, grace and style, and is a wonderful guide to a good life beautifully lived. --Howard Zinn, author, A People's History of the United States