The families live strictly by the rules set down by the ancestors in 'Our Book.' This is in an agrarian community. Gather The Daughters is a smoldering debut dark and energetic, compulsively readable, Melamed’s novel announces her as an unforgettable new voice in fiction.#BookReview GATHER THE DAUGHTERS by Jennie US UK THE DAUGHTERS is an exquisitely written and strong debut novel about a dystopian society known as 'the island.' The island was settled generations ago by 'the ancestors,' ten families which fled 'the wastelands' (the mainland) after some sort of apocalyptic catastrophe (possibly a nuclear attack). Trying urgently now to unravel the mysteries of the island and what lies beyond, before her own demise, she attempts to lead an uprising of the girls that may be their undoing.

At seventeen years old, Janey is so unwilling to become a woman, she is slowly starving herself to death. Born leader Janey Solomon steps up to seek the truth. And it is at the end of one summer that little Caitlin Jacob sees something so horrifying, so contradictory to the laws of the island, that she must share it with the others. With the adults indoors and the pubescent in Fruition, the children live wildly–they fight over food and shelter, free of their fathers’ hands and their mothers’ despair. But in the summer, the younger children reign supreme. They have children, who have children, and when they are no longer useful, they take their final draught and die. At the first sign of puberty, they face their Summer of Fruition, a ritualistic season that drags them from adolescence to matrimony. The daughters of these men are wives-in-training. Only the Wanderers–chosen male descendants of the original ten–are allowed to cross to the wastelands, where they scavenge for detritus among the still-smoldering fires. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of knowledge and history. Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. Never Let Me Go meets The Giver in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems. You can read this before Gather the Daughters PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Gather the Daughters written by Jennie Melamed which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed

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