A thrilling, thought-provoking novel from one of young-adult
literature's boldest new talents.
January 29, 2035. That's the day the comet is scheduled to hit - the big
one.
Denise and her mother and sister, Iris, have been assigned to a
temporary shelter outside their hometown of Amsterdam to wait out the
blast, but Iris is nowhere to be found, and at the rate Denise's
drug-addicted mother is going, they'll never reach the shelter in time.
A last-minute meeting leads them to something better than a temporary
shelter - a generation ship scheduled to leave Earth behind to colonize
new worlds after the comet hits. But everyone on the ship has been
chosen because of their usefulness.
Denise is autistic and fears that she'll never be allowed to stay. Can
she obtain a spot before the ship takes flight? What about her mother
and sister? When the future of the human race is at stake, whose lives
matter most?