Editing The Divide (section)

== The household and the workplace ==
The opening school assignment asks which systems keep a home alive and who looks after them. It gives the reader a small, personal version of the much larger heat network Paul serves. Names on a child’s diagram and names on an operating record both make responsibility visible.

The novel moves between domestic routines and industrial work. Following those changes of setting is a useful way to read Paul: the importance of his job and the importance of his family can be true at the same time.

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