The Country of Ice Cream Star
A post-apocalyptic literary epic in the tradition of The Handmaid's Tale, Divergent and Cloud Atlas, and a breakout book in North America for a writer of rare and unconventional talent.
From Guardian First Book Award finalist Sandra Newman comes an ambitious and extraordinary novel of a future in which bands of children and teens survive on the detritus—physical and cultural—of a collapsed America. When her brother is struck down by Posies—a contagion that has killed everyone by their late teens for generations—fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star pursues the rumour of a cure and sets out on a quest to save him, her tribe and what's left of their future. Along the way she faces broken hearts and family tragedy, mortal danger and all-out war—and much growing up for the girl who may have led herself and everyone she loves to their doom.
From Guardian First Book Award finalist Sandra Newman comes an ambitious and extraordinary novel of a future in which bands of children and teens survive on the detritus—physical and cultural—of a collapsed America. When her brother is struck down by Posies—a contagion that has killed everyone by their late teens for generations—fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star pursues the rumour of a cure and sets out on a quest to save him, her tribe and what's left of their future. Along the way she faces broken hearts and family tragedy, mortal danger and all-out war—and much growing up for the girl who may have led herself and everyone she loves to their doom.