NAMED TO KIRKUS REVIEWS' BEST BOOKS OF 2018You've never seen a true human being. No one has, because for several millennia a hidden society has conducted a clandestine effort to "diminish" the entire population, biochemically changing humans into lesser beings while they're still in the womb.But now the Diminishing Act is up for renewal and Andra Barger, a last-minute addition to the voting council, has an opportunity to overturn the law. It seems like an easy call... until she learns her cancer-stricken brother, the fate of an elusive culture, and possibly her own life depend on the council's good graces. Meanwhile her conscience - and Andra's only chance of having an unaltered child - demands an opposition vote.Will she vote for... or against... the horrific Act?