The Country of Ice Cream Star

Publisher Marketing: In the aftermath of a devastating plague, a fearless young heroine embarks on a dangerous and surprising journey to save her world in this brilliantly inventive thriller. In the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her nomadic tribe live off the detritus of a crumbled civilization. Theirs is a world of children; before reaching the age of twenty, they all die of a strange disease they call Posies a plague that has killed for generations. There is no medicine, no treatment; only the mysterious rumor of a cure. When her brother begins showing signs of the disease, Ice Cream Star sets off on a bold journey to find this cure. Led by a stranger, a captured prisoner named Pasha who becomes her devoted protector and friend, Ice Cream Star plunges into the unknown, risking her freedom and ultimately her life. Traveling hundreds of miles across treacherous, unfamiliar territory, she will experience love, heartbreak, cruelty, terror, and betrayal, fighting to protect the only world she has ever known. A postapocalyptic literary epic as imaginative as "The Passage" and as linguistically ambitious as "Cloud Atlas," "The Country of Ice Cream Star" is a breathtaking work from a writer of rare and unconventional talent." Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/15/2014 pg. 46 (EAN 9780062227096, Hardcover) Booklist 11/15/2014 pg. 31 (EAN 9780062227096, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Library Journal 12/01/2014 pg. 95 (EAN 9780062227096, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2014 (EAN 9780062227096, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 12/22/2014 (EAN 9780062227096, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Shelf Awareness 02/10/2015 (EAN 9780062227096, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 03/29/2015 pg. 18 (EAN 9780062227096, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Newman, Sandra Sandra Newman is the author of The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done, which was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. She is also the author of the novel Cake; the memoir Changeling; How Not to Write a Novel, an irreverent how-to guide (with Howard Mittelmark); and The Western Lit Survival Kit. She lives in New York.