Salvage
by Alexandra Duncan
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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