virgiltozier
In a world physically severed by "The Split," the sky is a luxury reserved for the Pure, while the earth's crust is a tomb for the Stains. THE SPLIT is a visceral, vertical dystopia where the "Up" breathes through the ceilings of the "Below," and morality is measured in altitude. Cata, a fourteen-year-old born into the subterranean smog of the lower tiers, is a living echo of his mother's "moral infection"-forced to pay a biological debt for a heritage he never chose.
Cata must navigate a landscape of crumbling concrete and systemic erasure to uncover the truth hidden in the silence between the tiers. Blending the atmospheric dread of Stephen King with the surreal isolation of Haruki Murakami, Virgil Tozier's debut novel is a haunting exploration of a society that decided evil could be removed, only to realize it had been buried alive.