Leo the Leper and the Senseless World

Even though they have little money and very few supplies, his pal Sam and their off-and-on friend Hux go with Leo on his quest for the cure, biking the one-thousand miles to Riverside. Along the way, they must also avoid leper hunters, sneak through hostile elite cities, and sidestep the chaos and criminal activity of leper shantytowns. More

In a society where people are sorted into castes based on which senses they don’t have, sixteen-year-old Leo is in the lowest tier for being nose-blind, taste-blind, and partially numb. What’s worse than being called a leper? The nonstop sensism is wearing him down. When researching for his history class about the plague that caused ninety percent of all people to lose at least one of their senses, he discovers a spot on a map where everyone is elite, unaffected.