Blue Ticket
A Novel
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3.5 • 57 Ratings
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
From the author of the Booker Prize longlisted novel The Water Cure comes another mesmerizing, refracted vision of our society: What if the life you're given is the wrong one?
"Blue Ticket adds something new to the dystopian tradition set by Orwell’s 1984 or Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale." —New York Times Book Review
Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you marriage and children. A blue ticket grants you a career and freedom. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice. And once you've taken your ticket, there is no going back. But what if the life you're given is the wrong one?
When Calla, a blue-ticket woman, begins to question her fate, she must go on the run. Pregnant and desperate, Calla must contend with whether or not the lottery knows her better than she knows herself—and what that might mean for her child. With Blue Ticket, Sophie Mackintosh has created another mesmerizing, refracted vision of our world that explores the impossible decisions women have to make when society restricts their choices.
Customer Reviews
More questions than answers
I was excited about the premise of this book but found it difficult to get through. The novel dealt with the main character’s struggle with the ticket-choice handed to her in a dystopian society. My struggle was that I couldn’t connect with any of the characters, at all. There was little information about the society and why it functioned the way it did. I was left with so many questions and no answers.
A poem
This is a moan of longing. Simple, concise, a tribute to an idea of freedom.