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Salvage by Alexandra Duncan

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Salvage

Alexandra Duncan, Johanna Parker, Greenwillow Books

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · April 1, 2014

Reading lane: Space Opera (YA)

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Who It's For

Good for readers interested in horrorGood for fans of Young AdultGood for readers who enjoy Space Opera (YA) and Alien Contact (YA).

Book Details

Authors
Alexandra Duncan, Johanna Parker, Greenwillow Books
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
April 1, 2014
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Space Opera (YA) · Alien Contact (YA)
Reading lane
Space Opera (YA)

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Publisher Categories

  • YA Apocalyptic Fiction

  • YA Fantasy Romance

  • Space Opera (YA)

  • YA Sci‑Fi Romance

About This Book

Ava, a teenage girl living aboard the male-dominated deep space merchant ship Parastrata , faces betrayal, banishment, and death. Taking her fate into her own hands, she flees to the Gyre, a floating continent of garbage and scrap in the Pacific Ocean, in this thrilling, surprising, and thought-provoking debut novel that will appeal to fans of Across the Universe , by Beth Revis, and The Handmaid's Tale , by Margaret Atwood. Internationally bestselling author Stephanie Perki...

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Ava, a teenage girl living aboard the male-dominated deep space merchant ship Parastrata , faces betrayal, banishment, and death. Taking her fate into her own hands, she flees to the Gyre, a floating continent of garbage and scrap in the Pacific Ocean, in this thrilling, surprising, and thought-provoking debut novel that will appeal to fans of Across the Universe , by Beth Revis, and The Handmaid's Tale , by Margaret Atwood. Internationally bestselling author Stephanie Perkins called it "brilliant, feminist science fiction." Ava is the captain's daughter. This allows her limited freedom and a certain status in the Parastrata 's rigid society—but it doesn't mean she can read or write or even withstand the forces of gravity. When Ava learns she is to be traded in marriage to another merchant ship, she hopes for the best. After all, she is the captain's daughter. But instead, betrayal, banishment, and a brush with love and death are her destiny, and Ava stows away on a mail sloop bound for Earth in order to escape both her past and her future. The gravity almost kills her. Gradually recuperating in a stranger's floating cabin on the Gyre, a huge mass of scrap and garbage in the Pacific Ocean, Ava begins to learn the true meaning of family and home and trust—and she begins to nourish her own strength and soul. This sweeping and harrowing novel explores themes of choice, agency, rebellion, and family, and after a tidal wave destroys the Gyre and all those who live there, ultimately sends its main character on a thrilling journey to Mumbai, the beating heart of Alexandra Duncan's post–climate change Earth. An Andre Norton Award nominee.

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