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 postclimate change Earth. 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 trustand she begins to nourish her own strength and soul. 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. After all, she is the captain's daughter. It’s a surprisingly rich and complex young adult tale that includes significant references to climate change. Ava is born into a surprisingly conservative spacefaring culture and struggles to survive when her tribe condemns her. When Ava learns she is to be traded in marriage to another merchant ship, she hopes for the best. Salvage by Alexandra Duncan is the tale of a young woman’s journey from subservience to independence. This allows her limited freedom and a certain status in the Parastrata's rigid societybut it doesn't mean she can read or write or even withstand the forces of gravity. Internationally bestselling author Stephanie Perkins called it "brilliant, feminist science fiction."Īva is the captain's daughter. 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. Ava, a teenage girl living aboard the male-dominated deep space merchant ship Parastrata, faces betrayal, banishment, and death.
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