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Pills and Starships
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In a dystopian future brought about by global warming, seventeen-year-old Nat and her hacker brother, Sam, have come by ship to the Big Island of Hawaii for their parents' Final Week. The few Americans who still live well also live long—so long that older adults bow out not by natural means but by buying death contracts from the corporates who now run the disintegrating society, keeping the people happy through a constant diet of "pharma."
Nat's family is spending their pharma-guided last week at a luxury resort complex called the Twilight Island Acropolis. Deeply conflicted about her parents' decision, Nat spends her time keeping a record of everything her family does in the company-supplied diary that came in the hotel's care package. While Nat attempts to come to terms with her impending parentless future, Sam begins to discover cracks in the corporates' agenda—and eventually rebels against the company his parents have hired to handle their last days. Now Nat will have to choose a side, in this moving and suspenseful novel by a National Book Award–nominated author.
"A deep read, but fast; it lingers in your mind long after it's been read." —
"A brilliant dystopian novel . . . Beautifully written, dark but ultimately hopeful." —
"The details are terrific . . . and as the tension mounts it becomes a real page turner." —
"Vivid, moving . . . Will attract mature teen fans of
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, and similar apocalyptic survival stories." —
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Ayla Dani
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““I wondered: what if it was less what you believed in that made the difference in your life than whether you believed at all?”
What a strangely beautiful cautionary tale 🖤”
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Jim Haynes
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“Interesting idea and initially i was pretty interested in reading it, but the format of a Dairy entry didn't seem to draw me in emotionally to any of the characters. I went ahead and finished it but felt kinda blah about it.. <br/><br/>”
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About Lydia Millet
Lydia Millet is the author of seven novels for adults as well as a story collection called Love in Infant Monkeys (2009), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her first book for middle-grade readers, The Fires Beneath the Sea, was one of Kirkus' Best Children's Books of 2011, as well as a Junior Library Guild selection. Millet works as an editor and writer at a nonprofit in Tucson, Arizona, where she lives with her two young children.
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