Stephanie Oakes

Broschiertes Buch

The Meadows

Beschreibung

A queer, YA Handmaid's Tale meets Never Let Me Go about a dystopian society determined to reform anyone who is LGBTQ+ and the lengths to which one girl will go to save herself and her friends

Everyone hopes for a letter to attend the Estuary, the Pines, the Glades. To attend the Meadows. These are the secret places where only the best and brightest go, to learn to burn even brighter.

When Eleanor gets her letter, she knows she s freed from her hardscrabble life by the sea, in a country ravaged by climate disaster and war. But despite the Meadows luminous facilities, endless fields, and pretty things, it keeps a dark secret: its purpose is to reform the students inside, to condition them against their attractions, to show them that one way of life is the only way to survive. Anything else, they re told, will topple a society already on the brink of collapse.

Five years later, Eleanor is an adjudicator, making sure the Meadows former students don't stray from the life they ve been conditioned to live. But Eleanor can't escape her past, or thoughts of the girl she once loved. Because that girl isn't here anymore. What happened to her could be no one but Eleanor's fault. And as secrets emerge that set Eleanor on a dangerous but determined search for the truth, she knows if she's not careful, it could be her fate too.

Autor

Stephanie Oakes

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dial Books / Penguin US
• INT
• Seitenzahl: 435
• Altersempfehlung: ab 14 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 137mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9780593619636
• ISBN-10: 0593619633
• Artikelnr.: 65614784

Rezensionen

"This beautiful and important book is dystopian YA at its finest, and its themes of queer resilience and community will resonate for many years to come." BCCB (starred review)

[One of] the best YA novels hitting shelves . . . More necessary and timely than ever. This story of state-run schools in a post-climate disaster world that teach select young women to be perfect wives and mothers to help repopulate society doesn t feel as alien or far away as it once might have. Timely and thoughtful. Paste Magazine

In the style of Kazuo Ishiguro, details [are] dabbled out in tiny, delicious morsels and flashbacks . . . The writing is painterly, yet tight; the book ties up every detail . . . A haunting dystopian

amalgamation for the 21st century. Superlative, powerful, and timely. School Library Journal (starred review)

"Oakes employs evocative prose and worldbuilding shot through with equal parts melancholy and hope to craft an intelligent dystopian tale that proves a biting interpretation of contemporary issues surrounding conversion therapy, homophobia, misogyny, and racism." Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The Meadows is built with extraordinary parts stunning language, complex characters, and the most exquisite heart. It s a stop-you-in-your-tracks book, a reach-inside-and-grab-you book. I love its beating, beaming essence that we are all good, and deserving of love, just as we are. A story of pain, injustice, love, resistance, and hope, this glorious book will lodge inside you and make you feel everything. Helena Fox, award-winning author of How It Feels to Float and The Quiet and the Loud

Gripping . . . A YA Handmaid's Tale [that] toggles seamlessly between past and present. [For] readers who enjoy dystopian books with feminist themes and stories that highlight the power of queer community. Booklist

Cogent and incisive in its remarks on our present world, [The Meadows is] timely and gripping, [with] tension at a constant simmer and a new revelation always around the corner. Kirkus Reviews

"I was utterly swept away from page one. Atmospheric and unsettling, The Meadows is a dystopia that belongs in every collection. This is an incisive examination of the quiet violence of conversion therapies and the revolutionary power of self-love." Natalie C. Parker, award-winning author of the Seafire series

"A profound story with fantastic writing that will be a great companion-read to classics like Margaret Atwood s The Handmaid's Tale. And once you have finished reading it, do go back and read The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly [by Stephanie Oakes], which also tackles a lot of important discussions about what it means to be a teen girl in our world." Teen Librarian Toolbox

The Meadows is a book that I cannot prise out of my head. This is one spilling over with emotions: anger, sadness, and a tiny kernel of hope. It is a quietly devastating book, [and] Eleanor is a protagonist like no other. She has a fierce passion and desire to be loved and accepted, but it is veiled beneath years of programming and a paranoia from a world determined to squash her. . . . The narrative structure of moving between then and now within the Meadows and outside allows [for] hints beyond this dystopian reality [to] the dangers of climate change. Oakes writing is incredibly captivating. Every page carries a keen sense of urgency and suspense . . . Sometimes a book just makes you ache. The Meadows is one of those books. The Nerd Daily