While at Wei’s, Nina grows closer to Wei’s older brother Chris, especially because her boyfriend Sal is always off doing “noncon” work. The two girls move in with Nina’s good friend Wei, whose family is also part of the underground movement. As the story begins, Nina and her younger sister Dee have just been evicted after Nina’s grandpa was arrested for subversive activities and her grandmother is hospitalized for a heart attack. She comes from a family of “nonconformists” however: those who are opposed to governmental tyranny and especially the abuse of women. Nina Oberon has just turned sixteen, and now has her tattoo. Unfortunately, the result of having the tattoo often translates into a legal license to rape girls, and/or impress them into service as prostitutes. This means she is now legal sex bait for anyone who can get to her. In XVI, we learned that when a girl turns sixteen (or “sex-teen” as it is known), she gets “XVI” tattooed on her wrist.
Truth is the second book in the XVI series about a dystopia set in 2150.
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