The story begins with Eve’s dad rushing the family into the car for their last family vacation, or in other words, to emigrate. In Eve’s family, she has a goth rocker brother named Larry, a dad, a future ex-stepmom named Tracee, and a Boston terrier named Risky. The world has been hooked on the idea of emigration ever since the astronauts leaked a video of Venus; a party planet for the souls, full of animals and people living as friends and what Whittier described as, “ The planet was a Garden of Eden” (389). Almost everyone on Earth were onboard for killing themselves, but those who were not, the Emigration Assistance Squads forced them to. Celebrities emigrated within a week, which made normal people want to emigrate even more. To help wipe
