From multi-award-winning, literary tale Ursula K. Le Guin comes a speculative fiction traditional, The Eye from the Heron. In Victoria on the former prison colony, two exiled groupings?the farmers of Shantih and the town dwellers?live in apparent harmony. All is not as it seems, however. While the peace-loving farmers labor endlessly to provide food for the City, the City Bosses rule the Shantih with an iron fist. When a band of farmers decide to form a new settlement further apart, the Bosses retaliate by threatening to crush the ‘rebellion.’ Luz understands what this means to have no choices. Her dad is a Manager and he offers ruled over her existence using the same iron fist. Luz wonders what it could be prefer to make her own choices. To become free to choose her very own destiny.