The Meadows

ISBN-13: 9780593619636 / Miękka / 2023 / 368 str.

Stephanie Oakes

Recenzje

"This beautiful and important book is dystopian YA at its finest, and its themes of queer resilience and community will resonate for many years to come."  BCCB (starred review)

[One of] the best YA novels hitting shelves . . . More necessary and timely than ever. This story of state-run schools in a post-climate disaster world that teach select young women to be perfect wives and mothers to help repopulate society doesn t feel as alien or far away as it once might have. Timely and thoughtful.   Paste Magazine

"Oakes employs evocative prose and worldbuilding shot through with equal parts melancholy and hope to craft an intelligent dystopian tale that proves a biting interpretation of contemporary issues surrounding conversion therapy, homophobia, misogyny, and racism."  Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The Meadows is built with extraordinary parts stunning language, complex characters, and the most exquisite heart. It s a stop-you-in-your-tracks book, a reach-inside-and-grab-you book. I love its beating, beaming essence that we are all good, and deserving of love, just as we are. A story of pain, injustice, love, resistance, and hope, this glorious book will lodge inside you and make you feel everything.   Helena Fox, award-winning author of How It Feels to Float and The Quiet and the Loud

Cogent and incisive in its remarks on our present world, [The Meadows is] timely and gripping, [with] tension at a constant simmer and a new revelation always around the corner.   Kirkus Reviews

"I was utterly swept away from page one. Atmospheric and unsettling, The Meadows is a dystopia that belongs in every collection. This is an incisive examination of the quiet violence of conversion therapies and the revolutionary power of self-love." Natalie C. Parker, award-winning author of the Seafire series

Gripping . . . A YA Handmaid's Tale [that] toggles seamlessly between past and present. [For] readers who enjoy dystopian books with feminist themes and stories that highlight the power of queer community.   Booklist

O autorze

Stephanie Oakes is the author of The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly, which was a Morris Award finalist and a Golden Kite Honor book, and The Arsonist, which won the Washington State Book Award and was an ALA/YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults pick. An elementary school librarian, Stephanie lives in Spokane, Washington with her wife and family.