Finn’s a “legal” citizen and enjoys all the privileges that come with it. Finn and Mari are coupled at the beginning of the novel. The main storyline focuses on the effort to free the inks from their forced branding. The characters’ narratives orbit around and entangle with one another. The inks’ privilege is dictated by the color of their tattoo, which lets others know if they are temporary workers, permanent residents, or citizens. All the characters are working towards equality for the “inks,” who are immigrants with different levels of privilege in society. The novel is split between four characters: Finn, Mari, Del, and Abbie. The world of Ink is here and has been here for quite some time. But, what makes this horror a little different is the world of Ink isn’t like the world of 1984 or The Hunger Games. Vourvouslias’ novel evokes all the feelings of horror that dystopian works tend to successfully do for readers. I picked up the novel because it was a part of my course material in a university class. Sabrina Vourvoulias’ Ink was mentioned in a previous post by Phoebe Wagner, which gathered a few other works that reflect our time to an eerie tee.
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