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Bezig met laden... Gutter Child: A Noveldoor Jael Richardson
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A fierce and illuminating debut from FOLD founder Jael Richardson about a young woman who must find the courage to determine her own future and secure her freedom Set in an imagined world in which the most vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom by working off their debt to society, Gutter Child uncovers a nation divided into the privileged Mainland and the policed Gutter. In this world, Elimina Dubois is one of only 100 babies taken from the Gutter and raised in the land of opportunity as part of a social experiment led by the Mainland government. But when her Mainland mother dies, Elimina finds herself all alone, a teenager forced into an unfamiliar life of servitude, unsure of who she is and where she belongs. Elimina is sent to an academy with new rules and expectations where she befriends Gutter children who are making their own way through the Gutter System in whatever ways they know how. When Elimina's life takes another unexpected turn, she will discover that what she needs more than anything may not be the freedom she longs for after all. Richardson's Gutter Child reveals one young woman's journey through a fractured world of heartbreaking disadvantages and shocking injustices. Elimina is a modern heroine in an altered but all too recognizable reality who must find the strength within herself to forge her future and defy a system that tries to shape her destiny. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.74)
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Not far into the novel, I realized I wasn’t reading a work of fiction; I was reading history and current events and I just felt incredibly pissed off. There is nothing portrayed in this novel that has not happened at some point in time throughout history. To make matters worse, many of the injustices in the novel are happening every minute as we go about our day-to-day. I have seen them with my own eyes; racism, gender inequality, mistreatment of Indigenous peoples, government control, and heavy taxation.
Richardson has done an amazing job of awakening the reader’s fighting spirit and has intentionally set out to make this a difficult book to read because life is difficult and has always been difficult. Unfortunately, so many of us choose to look the other way or push the negative aspects of life to the back of our minds instead of going against the grain and standing up for what we believe in. It is so incredibly hard to stand up and speak out because judgment is always upon those who do so, but there are always those few in the crowd who continue to light the torch and keep on marching to make the world a better place for everyone.
Reading this novel during a time of vaccine mandates and freedom convoys has certainly amplified my feelings about it. I was unable to put this book down not because I love the plot and the characters but because this novel speaks the truths of our human situation. This story will always haunt me but I will never love it. Gutter Child is a novel of courage, a novel for the freedom fighting spirit that lives within us all. It is an important novel, one that every man, woman, and child should read to remind them of what has happened, what can happen, and what needs to be done to overcome hardship. Five stars to Gutter Child for making me want to stand up and fight for what’s right.
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