Published by Greenwillow, 2014
Ava is a seventeen-year-old girl born aboard a spaceship,
the Parastrata; when she makes an
understandable, yet regrettable, mistake, she is cast out by her patriarchal
family to the unfamiliar and unforgiving Earth below. With just her aptitude for “Fixes” and her
spirit for survival, Ava must navigate through the Gyre, a floating wasteland
of trash in the Pacific, to ultimately end up in Mumbai, where she searches for
her modrie, her blood-aunt. Duncan delivers a finely-paced dystopian
science fiction novel that relentlessly charges through the finer plot points,
which may leave readers confused as to how exactly Earth resulted in a
technologically-advanced wasteland.
Another small hiccup is the strange dialogue given to Parastrata’s inhabitants, and Ava,
without explanation, which may be off-putting to slow and reluctant
readers. However, the strength of Ava’s
character bears the story well through its 528 pages. Fans
of Beth Revis’s Across the Universe
and Matched by Ally Condie will
appreciate Duncan’s first dive into the genre.
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