Publisher: Headline Publishing Group ISBN: 9781472241726 Number of pages: 448 Weight: 309 g Dimensions: 196 x 126 x 30 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Intertwining the perspectives of four teenage girls on the brink of entering the frightening world of adulthood, the novel weaves a story of defiance and indomitable spirit which feels perfectly primed for our time. And she returns home with a truth that could bring their island world to its knees.Įchoing the hauntingly entrancing quality of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Gather the Daughters spins a tail of women’s lives and bodies subsumed by a repressive, abusive social order. To be free.Īt the end of one of such summer, one of the younger girls sees something she was never supposed to see. Every summer they are turned out onto their doorsteps, to roam the island, sleep on the beach and build camps in trees. Boys grow up knowing they will one day take charge, while girls know they will be married and pregnant within moments of hitting womanhood.īut before that time comes, a ritual offers children an exhilarating reprieve. On a small isolated island, there's a community that lives by its own rules. She can’t see the point of the repetitiveness of it all, people living to create more people and then dying when they’re useless, to make room for even more people Clarke Award 2018Ī frighteningly believable dystopian vision, Jennie Melamed’s debut imagines a world where resources are scarce, lives short and women’s fertility a valuable commodity.
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