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This is a sweeping and harrowing novel about a girl who can’t read or write or even withstand the forces of gravity. Taking her fate into her own hands, she flees to the Gyre, a floating continent of garbage and scrap in the Pacific Ocean.

Ava, a teenage girl living aboard the male-dominated, conservative deep space merchant ship Parastrata, faces betrayal, banishment, and death. This is literary science fiction with a feminist twist, and it explores themes of choice, agency, rebellion, and family. Alexandra Duncan manages to portray a believable world aboard a spaceship where the patriarchy has gone into overdrive. At the start of the book, I was intrigued but not impressed. It took a while for that to come into focus. Salvage is a thrilling, surprising, and thought-provoking debut novel that will appeal to fans of Across the Universe, by Beth Revis, and The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood. And despite its beginnings, there is definitely much that is inspirational about Salvage.

By Alexandra Duncan (Published by Greenwillow Books)Īndre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction in 2014 Taking her fate into her own hands, she flees to the Gyre, a floating continent of garbage and scrap in the Pacific Ocean, in this thrilling, surprising, and thought-provoking debut novel that will appeal to fans of Across the Universe, by Beth Revis, and The Handmaids Tale, by Margaret Atwood.

Salvage by alexandra duncan