The Wall

Leia lives on an island in a small, closed world. Children there leave their parents at ten and fend for themselves, and the islanders rely on the Force within them, as their forefathers taught. Their only inheritance is The Book, left by their ancestors.

A Wall runs across the island, and no one has crossed it. The people behind it are called Fools, and the Eastern Islanders are taught to shun them because the Fools believe salvation will come from across the sea. Leia has never seen one.

Then an unknown man is washed up on the shore, and soon after Leia stands face to face with a Fool. His name is Walt, a boy from the far side of the Wall, and he is not the fool she was raised to expect.

Together Leia and Walt set out to uncover the truth about both of their societies. As they dig, the beliefs each of them took for granted begin to give way.

The story is told in the first person, in Leia's voice, and its setting is isolated and enclosed. The outcome for the island stays open: the change they set in motion could help the islanders or hurt them.