{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Unauthorized Bread","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/unauthorized-bread","description":"From the outside, the Boston-based subsidized apartments reserved for low-income tenants in a new technologically-advanced building seem like a dream come true. But soon the program\u0026#39;s newest recipients, Salima--a young woman recently released from a refugee camp in Arizona--and her friends with similiar backgrounds, discover themselves living in a technologically fortified parallel universe.\n\nNot only are the elevators digitally programmed to economically discriminate against the building\u0026#39;s tenants (the low-income residents can only use the elevators if they\u0026#39;re not occupied by anyone from the wealthy side of the building), but the apartments\u0026#39; appliances are designed to extract revenue. The fridge won\u0026#39;t chill unauthorized groceries. The toaster won\u0026#39;t toast unauthorized bread.\n\nWhen hedge funds tank the companies behind these electronic \u0026quot;conveniences,\u0026quot; they stop working altogether. Salima then takes it upon herself to lead a dangerous jailbreaking underground, training a child army that liberates the building\u0026#39;s appliances, even those hated elevators. However, the stakes rise when the group finds themselves faced with the danger of losing everything they\u0026#39;ve built and being deported back to their war-torn countries.","author_name":"Cory Doctorow","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/cory-doctorow","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/editions/31399623/8929829f-8a81-4e21-a566-adf07d76c1dc.jpg","thumbnail_width":400,"thumbnail_height":578}