On her sixteenth birthday, Pressia is on the run, targeted by soldiers whose violence is as threatening as the mystery of their unknown mission. Meanwhile, Partridge tries to escape his perfectly sanitized, perfectly controlled home to get into Pressia's dangerous world, hoping to find his mother although he's been told all his life she is dead. Pure is a wildly imaginative novel set in a near future where some people have been saved from a deadly nuclear blast - and the rest have endured bizarre injuries and oppression from a military force that may not be what it seems. Author Julianna Baggott writes a surprisingly engaging tale full of strange and fascinating elements, told in numerous voices that flesh out her world.Pure joins a long literary history of post-apocalyptic fiction, from the classic The Handmaid's Tale to Cormac McCarthy's recent bestseller The Road and the new novel When She Woke, which was reviewed on this blog in December. -Michelle (Sunset)
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