Pejorative: Echoes of a Nation

Pejorative: Echoes of a Nation is a hauntingly plausible speculative novel told through a fractured archive of testimonies, smuggled documents, corrupted broadcasts, and the reflections of a vanished resistance archivist. Set in a near-future Canada quietly annexed under the banner of continental “unity,” the story unfolds through recovered files curated by the last person who tried to remember out loud—Jason Butterfield.

What begins as a logistical deployment after Alberta’s secession vote becomes something far darker: a euphemistic occupation, a nation rebranded, and a culture erased not through violence, but through narrative control. As Jason, a reservist turned memory hoarder, descends into the underground, he compiles stories from those silenced, displaced, or disappeared by the Unity regime. From blacklisted teachers and Indigenous resistance leaders to smuggled radio poets and burned librarians, their voices form a mosaic of truth that was nearly lost.

Years later, long after Jason’s final signal flickers out in the north, Dr. Isabel Sanz of the North American Truth and Documentation Initiative reconstructs his archive. What emerges is not just a history, it’s a warning.

For fans of The Handmaid’s Tale, 1984, and World War Z*, Pejorative is a genre-blending novel of resistance, memory, and the quiet brutality of forgetting.