Published in 2014
307 pages
A. S. King is the award-winning author of eight acclaimed novels for young adults. Her novel Please Ignore Vera Dietz earned a 2011 Michael L. Printz Honor and Ask the Passengers won the 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The New York Times called her one of the best YA writers working today. King lives with her family in Pennsylvania, where she returned after living on a farm and teaching adult literacy in Ireland for more than a decade.
What is this book about?
In this masterpiece about freedom, feminism, and destiny, Printz Honor author A. S. King tells the epic story of a girl coping with devastating loss at long last a girl who has no idea that the future needs her, and that the present needs her even more.
Graduating from high school is a time of limitless possibilities but not for Glory, who has no plan for what s next. Her mother committed suicide when Glory was only four years old, and she has never stopped wondering if she will eventually go the same way until a transformative night when she begins to experience an astonishing new power to see a person s infinite past and future. From ancient ancestors to many generations forward, Glory is bombarded with visions and what she sees ahead of her is terrifying: A tyrannical new leader raises an army. Women s rights disappear. A violent second civil war breaks out. And young girls vanish daily, sold off or interned in camps. Glory makes it her mission to record everything she sees, hoping her notes will somehow make a difference. She may not see a future for herself, but she ll do anything to make sure this one does not come to pass.”
