PublishedDel Rey, June 2015 |
ISBN9781785031335 |
FormatSoftcover, 288 pages |
Dimensions21.6cm × 13.5cm × 2cm |
Things I will never forget- my name, my made-up birthday...The dark of the Hospital at night. My mother's face, when she was young.
Things other people will forget- where they come from, how old they are, the faces of the people they love. The right words for bowl and sunshine...What is a beginning and what
is an end.
Joy spends her days working the graveyard shift at a store outside Boston and nursing an addiction to cough syrup, an attempt to suppress her troubled past. But when a sickness that begins with silver blisters and memory loss and ends with death sweeps the country, Joy, for the first time in her life, seems to have an advantage- she is immune.
At once a hauntingly beautiful portrayal of a dystopian future and a powerful exploration of loneliness.
