Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel

I am not into dystopian fiction, but this author is so good that I make an exception for her. She has predicted the future state before, and here's hoping that is not what is happening here, but we shall see, and sadly, what she writes is all too believable. This is set in the near future, beginning in 2031 and going forward from there. There are two parallel worlds, neither of them particularly lovely. The first is one where when the United States collapses it devolves into individual city-states, with armed militias in charge. It is not broken down along the political lines that exist and persist now interestingly, but more chaotic than that. The other world is authoritarian surveillance state and while it is less chaotic it is no more appealing. So there is a lot to think about here, and the story is so engaging, so well told, and so unexpected that it propelled me through it. I listened to it, and the audiobook version is well done.