This was intense, and disturbing. 12 year old Lola is a Brearly student, living in NYC with her parents, and by the end of the book, she has changed into a wild survivalist.
I've read a lot of dystopian near-future fic, and this felt chillingly possible. The assasinations, the riots, the fires in California, the National Guard and the Xanax, all seen through the eyes of a girl who (occasionally) studies for chemistry and is struggling through Tess of the D'Urbervilles...
Intense. I hadn't heard of it until I read a Boing Boing post asking why this book wasn't better known, and I agree- it should be.
