Gathering Blue / David Mullen on 8 Oct 2006

A skin-crawling vision of a post-holocaust future in which the priestly elite live in opulence, everyone else lives in mud-hut squalor, and all worship the Worship Object (a cross), though no one remembers what it means. The characters are few but intriguing, most especially the young heroine, Kira. Hers is the gift of thread and color, and her search for the color blue becomes a search for the fully awful truth about the society in which she was born, and for the hope that lies beyond it.

Preceded by The Giver (ever controversial, and soon to be a film); followed by Messenger.

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