In an alternate reality a lot like our world, every person’s physical size is directly proportional to their wealth. The poorest of the poor are the size of rats, and billionaires are the size of skyscrapers. Warner and his sister Prayer are destitute—and tiny. Their size is not just demeaning, but dangerous: day and night … Continue reading MUNMUN, by Jesse Andrews, Amulet Books/Abrams Books, Hachette Book Group
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RED CLOCKS, by Leni Zumas, Little, Brown & Company
In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity, and freedom. Ro, a single … Continue reading RED CLOCKS, by Leni Zumas, Little, Brown & Company
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BORNE, by Jeff Vandermeer, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger, finds a creature she names “Borne” entangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic, despotic bear. Mord once prowled the corridors of the biotech organization known as the Company, which lies at the outskirts of the … Continue reading BORNE, by Jeff Vandermeer, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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