The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman

The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman

A gripping and beautifully written dystopian page-turner from New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist ALEGRA GODMAN.

In the eighteenth glorious year of Enclosure, long after The Flood, a young girl named Honor moves with her parents to Island 365 in the Tranquil Sea. Life on the tropical island is peaceful--there is no sadness and no visible violence in this world. Earth Mother and her Corporation have created New Weather. The sky is always blue and it almost never rains. Every family fits into its rightful, orderly, and predictable place.

Except Honor's. Her family does not follow the rules. They ignore curfew, sing songs, and do not pray to Earth Mother. Honor doesn't fit in with the other children at the Old Colony School. Then she meets Helix, a boy with a big heart who slowly helps her uncover a terrible secret about the Island: Sooner or later, those who do not fit disappear, and they don't ever come back.

Honor knows her family could be next, and when the unthinkable happens, she must make the dangerous journey to the Other Side of the Island--before Earth Mother comes for her too.

Allegra Goodman's writing has been published in the New Yorker, Good Housekeeping, Slate, and the American Scholar, among other publications. She was named one of the twenty best authors under forty by the New Yorker, and she has also won a Whiting Award and the Salon magazine prize for fiction. She resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her family.

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ISBN 13	9781595141965
ISBN 10	1595141960
Title	The Other Side of the Island
Author	Allegra Goodman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Razorbill
Year published	2009-05-14
Number of pages	280
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.