Fiction
Girl Minus X
by Anne Stone
Description
As the world around them collapses under the weight of a slow, creeping virus that erodes memory, fifteen-year-old Dany and her five-year-old sister are on the edge of their own personal apocalypse—fearing separation at the hands of child services. When a dangerous new strain of the virus emerges, Dany careens headlong into crisis, determined to save her sister.
Together with her best friend and reluctant history teacher, they must flee the city. Along the way, Dany faces a series of devastating choices: Can she make the dangerous attempt to break her aunt out of the prison-hospice? And just how much is Dany willing to sacrifice to ensure her sister and her friends survive?
Girl Minus X is a meditation on the gift that is memory and its hidden costs, pitting a fear of forgetting against a desire to erase the past.
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Note: K2 Literary selling rights for Wolsak & Wynn, the publisher.
Rights sold:
-Findaway (audio, World English)
-All rights available excl. North America
Reviews
“Stone’s brilliant, breathless novel will put readers in mind of Emily St. John Mandel and Margaret Atwood.”
–Publishers Weekly
“Girl Minus X is what happens when great writing meets a mesmeric, page-turning plot. The best speculative fiction captures what we dimly imagine but intimately feel; and this book wins in its gripping tale of intense social crises, complicated family members, dismal pressures from school and a young woman awakening to her own uncanny power. Anne Stone will captivate both teens and adults alike.”
–David Chariandy, author of Soucouyant and Brother
“What if you could let go of your trauma? Now, what if that process was forced on you by a virus that robbed you of all memories? Girl Minus X explores the bonds between humans surviving mid-apocalypse. Nobody writes like Anne Stone. Get prepared for the unthinkable.”
–Emily Pohl-Weary, author of Not Your Ordinary Wolf Girl and Ghost Sick
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View all titlesBibliographic Information
- Publisher/Imprint Wolsak & Wynn / Buckrider Books
- Publication Date October 2020
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- Publication Country or regionCanada
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2020
