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​Seventeen-year-old Paige has one chance to escape an arranged marriage to a boy in her post-apocalyptic cult: by becoming her town’s human sacrifice. 

It's her job to be pure enough that she can deliver the souls of her neighbors into the afterlife. But with the creeping inappropriate attraction she's been feeling towards another girl—who also happens to be her best friend, Mott—Paige knows that she's an imposter. She just has to hide it until she dies. 

Her plan to trade her life for freedom nearly works—until her brother and Mott get themselves arrested, are declared heretics, and are sentenced to death. As Paige grapples with her loyalty to the only civilization left on Earth and the impending doom of her loved ones, she faces a heart-wrenching decision: stay and accept the sacrifice, or risk everything by blowing up the only home she’s ever known and venturing into nothing but desolate wasteland.
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​FOR FANS OF:
  • The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
  • ​“The Path” (Hulu)
  • “Midsommar” (2019)
  • The Giver (Lois Lowry)
  • Wilder Girls (Rory Power)
  • The Meadows (Stephanie Oakes)
  • ​We Set the Dark on Fire (Tehlor Kay Mejia)

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Paige lives in New Standard, an idyllic world where no one goes hungry and everyone has a place to live. 

It's also a place of forced abortions, witch burnings, and eugenics. 

Enjoy the unofficial book soundtrack here. 
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Image credit: "Houses Along Alley in Suburbs" by Efrem Efre
Header image credit: Women Wearing White Dress by Anastasia Shuraeva
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