**A fierce and heartbreaking debut from FOLD founder Jael Richardson about a young woman who must find the courage to determine her own future** Imagine a world in which the hopeless and vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom by working off their debt to society. Imagine a world divided into th
Gutter Child
โ Scribed by Jael Richardson
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 317 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1443457825
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โฆ Synopsis
A fierce and heartbreaking debut from FOLD founder Jael Richardson about a young woman who must find the courage to determine her own future
Imagine a world in which the hopeless and vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom by working off their debt to society. Imagine a world divided into the privileged Mainland and the policed Gutter. In that world lives Elimina Dubois, one of only 100 children selected as a social experiment by the Mainland government to be taken from their mothers in the Gutter and raised in the land of opportunity.
But when her Mainland mother dies when Elimina is just a teenager, the girl finds herself all alone, forced into an unfamiliar life of servitude, unsure of who she is and where she belongs. Now she must befriend the Gutter children, who make their own way through the crushing cycle of the Gutter System in whatever ways they know how. And Elimina will discover that what she needs more than anything may not be the...
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