In the aftermath of a devastating plague, a fearless young heroine
embarks on a dangerous and surprising journey to save her world in this
brilliantly inventive dystopian thriller, told in bold and fierce
language, from a remarkable literary talent.
My name be Ice Cream Fifteen Star and this be the tale of how I bring
the cure to all the Nighted States . . .
In the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and
her nomadic tribe live off of the detritus of a crumbled civilization.
Theirs is a world of children; before reaching the age of twenty, they
all die of a mysterious disease they call Posies--a plague that has
killed for generations. There is no medicine, no treatment; only the
mysterious rumor of a cure.
When her brother begins showing signs of the disease, Ice Cream Star
sets off on a bold journey to find this cure. Led by a stranger, a
captured prisoner named Pasha who becomes her devoted protector and
friend, Ice Cream Star plunges into the unknown, risking her freedom and
ultimately her life. Traveling hundreds of miles across treacherous,
unfamiliar territory, she will experience love, heartbreak, cruelty,
terror, and betrayal, fighting with her whole heart and soul to protect
the only world she has ever known.
Guardian First Book Award finalist Sandra Newman delivers an
extraordinary post-apocalyptic literary epic as imaginative as The
Passage and as linguistically ambitious as Cloud Atlas. Like
Hushpuppy in The Beasts of the Southern Wild grown to adolescence in a
landscape as dangerously unpredictable as that of Ready Player One,
The Country of Ice Cream Star is a breathtaking work from a writer of
rare and unconventional talent.
