Di Richardson's Reviews > The World Gives Way

I really thought this book had a good premise. Myrna is a you g woman born into servitude. Her contract will be up when she turns 50. She is currently working in the home of a very wealthy family. One evening, something wakes her, and she goes to find the mistress of the house about to jump off a wall (?) and kill herself. The only thing stopping her is she is holding her infant daughter, and she can’t quite do that to her baby. She eventually hands the baby over to Myrra’s care, and explains to her that their world, which is actually a ship, is about to come apart, but the government has decided to keep it a secret. She and her husband have decided to control their deaths rather than be sucked out to space. Myrra knows no one will believe that her “employers” have killed themselves, and that she will be blamed. So she takes the baby and goes on the run. But really, where are you going to go? And that’s sort of how I felt about this story. I guess some of the characters learned more about themselves along the way, but ultimately, I didn’t feel like the story had anywhere to go either.