The Record Keeper is a visceral and thrilling near-future dystopia examining past and present race relations. After World War III, Earth is in ruins, and the ultimate armies have come to a hesitant truce. Everyone must obey the law–in every way–or risk shattering the delicate peace and endangering the entire people. Although Arika Cobane is normally a member from the competition whose backbreaking labor provides meals for the remnants of humanity, she actually is destined to become person in the Kongo elite. After ten gruelling many years of schooling, she is over the threshold of taking her place of privilege definately not the fields. But everything changes when a new student arrives. Hosea Khan spews dangerous phrases of treason: What does peacefulness matter if innocent lives are dropped to maintain it? As Arika is normally exposed to fresh values, she realizes the fact that laws she’s devoted herself to uphold are the reason behind her people’s misery. If Arika is to liberate her people, she must unearth her brutal heart and find out the true indicating of freedom: finding the courage to live–or die–without dread.