In one of those moments of reading serendipity that always take me by surprise when they happen, I read this book at around the same time that I read NK Jemisin's novella Emergency Skin. Both of them are stories about "what if post-climate apocalyptic earth, and some humans are trying to get back to the planet for Reasons." I found the 38 page novella to be so much more clear and compelling about the world it was building than this full length novel. 

I liked the vignette storytelling style at the beginning of the book, where our main character goes by different epithets based on the people she is interacting with, but it got a little bit tiresome and never really gelled into a complete picture. I felt like the overarching society, religion, and power structure is still muddled to me even after finishing the book.