Isamu fukui biography of michael

novel by Isamu Fukui

Truancy is a dystopian novel written by Isamu Fukui, a New York City student in Stuyvesant High School, when he was 15 years old.^[1] Set in a totalitarian city ruled by its Mayor and Educators, it follows the story of a fifteen-year-old student named Tack, and a student rebellion calling itself the Truancy.

The story takes a critical look at the institution of school,^[2] and is dedicated "to everyone that has ever suffered in the name of education".

Synopsis

The book starts out with year old Tack trying to survive a ruthless high school where any infraction means expulsion, and expulsion means death.

After a run in with some bullies, Tack escapes into abandoned District 19, where he meets Umasi. Umasi pays Tack to do menial chores like sorting through salt and pepper, and trains him in several fighting ways. On a routine inspection of Tack's school, his little sister Suzie takes the blame for her friend Melissa f