Downsiders [SEP] narrative location
Downsiders
Downsiders is a 1999 novel by Neal Shusterman.
Plot summary.
The Downsiders, located underneath New York City, is a secret community of an unknown population (either native-born or "fallers" from the topside) that are never allowed to travel to the Topside (the surface). Talon, a fourteen-year-old Downsider, is curious about the Topside; he travels to the Topside and meets a fourteen-year-old girl named Lindsay Matthias, who just moved to her father
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