Red Side Story

Welcome to Chromatacia, where life is strictly regulated by one’s limited color
perception. Civilization has been rebuilt after an unspoken “Something that
Happened” five hundred years before. Society is now color vision—segregated,
everything dictated by an individual’s visual ability, and governed by the shadowy
National Color in far-off Emerald City.
Twenty-year-old Eddie Russett, a Red, is about to go on trial for a murder he
didn’t commit, and he’s pretty certain to be sent on a one-way trip to the Green
Room for execution by soporific color exposure. Meanwhile, he’s engaged in an
illegal relationship with his co-defendant, a Green, the charismatic and
unpredictable Jane Grey. Negotiating the narrow boundaries of the Rules within
their society, they search for a loophole—some truth of their world that has been
hidden from its hyper-policed citizens.
New York Times bestselling author Jasper Fforde returns to his fan-favorite Shades
of Grey series with this wildly anticipated, laugh-out-loud funny and darkly
satirical adventure about two star-crossed lovers on a quest to survive—even if it
means upending their entire society in the process.
An EXCLUSIVE EDITION for North American listeners, complete with a neverbefore-published short story