This is a first-person book written by Chris Ritter in 2073, based on his recollections and his mother's diary.
The story that Chris tells is part of the future history found in the book The Slave Formerly Known as Jane Foreman. Towards the end of this book, Chris and his family meet with Jane and her associates. The storylines of the two books eventually come together.
Readers will notice several themes and major book elements. There is the epic loss that Chris experiences at the end of his college education that forces him and his wife to rethink completely what they plan to do with their lives. Chris is separated from his immediate family and must focus entirely on himself and his wife. As they grapple with this, they must confront the impossible challenge of mixing children with work careers, as well as the difficulty of building up savings (to open their own business someday) in a society burdened with heavy taxation. The route they choose is not available in our society (thank goodness)!
Their enterprise and their unique family configuration bring them to the attention of Jane Foreman's company. Readers of the Jane Foreman book know to expect a lot of wry humor, loaded with plot twists. Please read it before you read this one. The humor is meant to poke fun at our present society, and the society to come in the wake of the collapse of our epic financial bubble.
A key theme of both books is that after the collapse, credit card companies sell their customers with large debts to balance their books. I always laugh when I surf the Internet and see clickbait articles entitled, Credit Card Customers with Large Balances are in for a Big Surprise! In the event that I am right about the future, I had better make myself scarce. No one wants to hear some nutball saying, “I told you so.”