Title: On the Edge of GoneAuthor: Corinne Duyvis
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Publisher: Amulet Books (Abrams imprint)
From Goodreads:
January 29, 2035. That’s the day the comet is scheduled to hit—the 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 Denise’s drug-addicted mother is going, they’ll never reach the shelter in time.
A last-minute meeting leads them to something better than a temporary shelter: a 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 she’ll 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?
So excited for this book! Yay to more Corinne books, which means yay to more diversity in YA and yay to more genre fiction. I'm really looking forward to this futuristic survival in a European city with an autistic, biracial heroine. :)
This one sounds SO AWESOME. What really sold me is that the main character has autism, and it's something that connects with me since I work in the field. You don't see very many YA books like that. Great choice!
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Not my usual read, but I do like the sound of this one, with the special family issues. Thanks for sharing, and here's mine:
ReplyDelete“AFTER SHE’S GONE”