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Grand Central Publishing
February 2012
On Sale: February 8, 2012
448 pages
ISBN: 1455503061
EAN: 9781455503063
Kindle: B004RCNGSK
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Action | Science Fiction
We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . .
Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life
during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble
of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather,
she thinks about what is lost-how the world went from
amusement parks, movie theaters, birthday parties, fathers
and mothers . . . to ash and dust, scars, permanent burns,
and fused, damaged bodies. And now, at an age when everyone
is required to turn themselves over to the militia to either
be trained as a soldier or, if they are too damaged and
weak, to be used as live targets, Pressia can no longer
pretend to be small. Pressia is on the run. Burn a Pure and Breathe the Ash . . .
There are those who escaped the apocalypse unmarked. Pures.
They are tucked safely inside the Dome that protects their
healthy, superior bodies. Yet Partridge, whose father is one
of the most influential men in the Dome, feels isolated and
lonely. Different. He thinks about loss-maybe just because
his family is broken; his father is emotionally distant; his
brother killed himself; and his mother never made it inside
their shelter. Or maybe it's his claustrophobia: his feeling
that this Dome has become a swaddling of intensely rigid
order. So when a slipped phrase suggests his mother might
still be alive, Partridge risks his life to leave the Dome
to find her. When Pressia meets Partridge, their worlds shatter all over
again.
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