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Author Melamed, Jennie, author

Title Gather the daughters : a novel / Jennie Melamed

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 Bangor Pub. Lib. Display 1st Floor  M4797 .g    AVAILABLE  
Edition First edition
Phys Descr 341 pages ; 25 cm
Summary A smoldering debut about an insular community on an island at the end of the world and the girls who start to question the rules that bind them
Just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of knowledge and history. Only the Wanderers-- chosen male descendants of the original ten-- are allowed to cross to the wastelands. At the first sign of puberty, their daughters face their Summer of Fruition, a ritualistic season that drags them from adolescence to matrimony. They have children, who have children, and when they are no longer useful, they take their final draught and die. One summer little Caitlin Jacob sees something so contradictory to the laws of the island that she must share it with the others
Subject Islands -- Fiction
Girls -- Fiction
OCLC # 962822544
ISBN # 9780316463652
0316463655