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From the author of the Booker Prize longlisted novel The Water Cure comes another mesmerizing, refracted vision of our society: What if the life you're given is the wrong one?
"Blue Ticket adds something new to the dystopian tradition set by Orwell’s 1984 or Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale." —New York Times Book Review
Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you marriage and children. A blue ticket grants you a career and freedom. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice. And once you've taken your ticket, there is no going back. But what if the life you're given is the wrong one?
When Calla, a blue-ticket woman, begins to question her fate, she must go on the run. Pregnant and desperate, Calla must contend with whether or not the lottery knows her better than she knows herself—and what that might mean for her child. With Blue Ticket, Sophie Mackintosh has created another mesmerizing, refracted vision of our world that explores the impossible decisions women have to make when society restricts their choices.
"Blue Ticket adds something new to the dystopian tradition set by Orwell’s 1984 or Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale." —New York Times Book Review
Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you marriage and children. A blue ticket grants you a career and freedom. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice. And once you've taken your ticket, there is no going back. But what if the life you're given is the wrong one?
When Calla, a blue-ticket woman, begins to question her fate, she must go on the run. Pregnant and desperate, Calla must contend with whether or not the lottery knows her better than she knows herself—and what that might mean for her child. With Blue Ticket, Sophie Mackintosh has created another mesmerizing, refracted vision of our world that explores the impossible decisions women have to make when society restricts their choices.
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Haneen Bendary
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“Sophie Mackintosh has a way with words. The idea of the book, although sci-fi, relates to our world and culture, where the tickets define a future where you can be one of two things, it reflects on how in life we're faced with the idea that we can either have jobs and succeed in them, or be mothers, and being both will mean failing in one part while trying to succeed in the other, and that's an ideal for men. They created this way of thinking and we've been trying to break the cycle for years.
Our female protagonist is not satisfied with her life, she wants more, she wants what other women have. She wants to have, what she thinks, is the perfect life trying to sabotage the darkness in her, but all she does stems from jealousy and dissatisfaction. She thinks she's different and that she can succeed in her pursuit, only to be hit with the truth. No one is special, it's just a lottery, it was just luck.
The book discusses motherhood and how one comes to be a mother, no matter the background, motherhood is universal and feminine and exists inside most of us, it's a dark need that wants to be fulfilled, it's raw, dark and pure. Unrequited love, or unrequited possession? The complexities of child bearing and giving life, the conflict in emotions, what is right and what is wrong and what needs to be hidden from the world when it comes to a mother's emotions and her feelings towards her baby. Motherhood is hard.
True, raw, and unfiltered.”
Michelle
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“I loved the concept and it was different twist on a “feminist” novel but the lack of quotation marks is a no from me dawg”
V Marshall
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“A very average book. The concept is that women are sorted into either blue ticket women or white ticket women. Blue ticket means the women never have children, and they have a device inserted inside them so they can't reproduce. The white ticket women are required to have a child. It's a lottery system so the women don't get to choose which ticket they get.
My issue is that the book is boring I'm some places. I'm glad that there is LGBTQ+ representation, though. Also, it's an interesting look into womanhood and motherhood. Anyways, I think this book is just fine. It's okay. It's not mind boggling. Just average.”
Sallysaysread
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About Sophie Mackintosh
Sophie Mackintosh is the author of The Water Cure, which won the 2019 Betty Trask Award and was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. In 2016 she won the White Review Short Story Prize and the Virago/Stylist short story competition. She has been published in The New York Times, Elle, and Granta, among others.
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