On the Edge of Gone
β Scribed by Corinne Duyvis
- Publisher
- Abrams
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 275 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
A thrilling, thought-provoking novel from one of young-adult literatureβs boldest new talents. January 29, 2035. Thatβs the day the comet is scheduled to hitβthe big one. Denise and her mother and sister, Iris, have been assigned to a temporary shelter outside their hometown of Amsterdam to wait out the blast, but Iris is nowhere to be found, and at the rate Deniseβs drug-addicted mother is going, theyβll never reach the shelter in time. A last-minute meeting leads them to something better than a temporary shelterβa generation ship, scheduled to leave Earth behind to colonize new worlds after the comet hits. But everyone on the ship has been chosen because of their usefulness. Denise is autistic and fears that sheβll never be allowed to stay. Can she obtain a spot before the ship takes flight? What about her mother and sister? When the future of the human race is at stake, whose lives matter most?
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