Wild Type

A clean record can protect a family. Until the country decides the body matters more than the record.

Mara Voss has spent eleven years behind the reconciliation window, helping citizens repair the discrepancies that threaten their civic standing. She knows every polite notice, every careful form, and every phrase that turns a human life into a file. She also knows how to stay safe: work cleanly, keep every document, and never give the system a reason to look twice.

Then a smaller chime sounds in her kitchen. Mara’s ancestry has been reopened. The only person who can fill the gray square in the family record is Vera, the grandmother who refused registration decades ago and built a life beyond the network.

To protect herself and her daughter, Mara must ask Vera to surrender the refusal that defined her. Each step toward compliance reveals the true price of Mara’s security, the husband already taken by the machinery, and the people who must disappear so someone else can remain safely recorded.

Wild Type is an intimate, unsettling novel about citizenship, inheritance, family loyalty, and the difference between being documented and being known.