Book Description

Naia lives in a world where people are “aged out” at age seventy, and Naia has just turned sixty-nine! Aged Out is a dystopian thriller with social, religious, and modern political overtones. In Naia Gold’s world, no one wants for any material needs; the ruling class government provides all necessities for everyone. But individual sacrifices must be made for society’s betterment. The evolution of this ideology gave rise to the long-accepted mandate of eliminating citizens at age seventy, thereby efficiently dealing with the costly realities of aging. Naia has just turned sixty-nine, and she’s desperate to find a way to stay alive! Her society requires her to be aged out one month after she turns seventy! Will she comply like so many others? Or will she battle for survival in a world whose primary ethical value is forced compliance in order to implement total equality? Naia encounters a myriad of characters as she goes through her journey to survive being aged out. Some want to help her; others have their own agendas that conflict with Naia’s goals. Ultimately, Naia pursues and achieves an outcome that might be real or the product of a fevered mind, but when death comes, the reader must decide if Naia has been quietly aged out or has died a hero’s death that changes the world! Aged Out combines the sociopolitical issues of Atlas Shrugged and 1984 with the suspense of Brave New World and Logan’s Run, the mania of A Clockwork Orange and the science fiction creativity of Star Trek. The reader will be constantly caught off guard throughout!