Rash

In the futuristic satire "Safe," winner of the National Book Award by Pete Hautman, readers enter the United Safer States of America in 2076, where all manual labor is relegated to prisoners, ensuring a seemingly safe society. Sixteen-year-old Bo navigates a world filled with stringent safety regulations and invasive governmental surveillance. However, when he is wrongly accused of spreading a rash at school, he faces rising tensions that challenge his reliance on calming medication and could lead him to an unexpected fate in the Canadian tundra.