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In this richly dreamed dystopic future brought by global warming, mass man migrations are constant, water and food are scarce, new infants are outlawed, and the disintegrating culture is run by corporates who give food to the people a steady diet of "pharma" to keep them happy. Usually, 17-year-old Nat doesn't allow it get her down too much: this, in the end, is the life span she's used to; and though she actually is nostalgic for the early world she's heard about, she's also natural, cheerful, and rough. But now her family - her parents and her hacker brother, Sam - have come by ship to the Big Island of Hawaii because of their parents' Last Week. The few People in the usa who still live well also live long - so long that older people bow out not by natural means but by purchasing death agreements. Nat's family is spending their pharma-guided last week at a luxury resort complex called the Twilight Island Acropolis, where their parents have bought a "holiday contract". Counting down the days till her parents are planned to die, Nat keeps an archive of everything her family will in the company-supplied journal that came in the hotel's good care deal. When Sam rebels up against the corporates his parents have employed to take care of their last times, Nat must choose a side. Will she let her parents go softly into that good evening? Or will she change against the system and try to break them out? This pause-resisting first YA book by critically acclaimed publisher Lydia Millet is stylish and dark and yet deeply hopeful, getting Millet's characteristic humor and style to a new technology of young listeners. Biographical Note: Lydia Millet is the writer of seven novels for adults and a history collection called Love in Toddler Monkeys (2009), that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Award. Her first reserve for middle-grade readers, The Fires Under the Sea, was one of Kirkus' Best Children's Catalogs of 2011, and a Junior Catalogue Guild selection. Millet works as an editor and copy writer at a nonprofit in Tucson, Arizona, where she lives with her two small children.
