01786cam a2200325 4500 1022556636 TxAuBib 20180322120000.0 160804s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016-950142 9780316463652 hardcover 0316463655 hardcover (OCoLC)962822544 YDX eng YDX TOH HQD GO6 LEB GKX IGA ILC IUK TYPML OCLCF ZHB CTL KVIJL OCLCO VP@ LLCLS DE# OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ DLC TxAuBib Melamed, Jennie. Gather the daughters : a novel / Jennie Melamed. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2017. 341 p. ; 25 cm. Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of knowledge and history. Only the Wanderers - chosen male descendants of the original ten - are allowed to cross to the wastelands. At the first sign of puberty, their daughters face their Summer of Fruition, a ritualistic season that drags them from adolescence to matrimony. They have children, who have children, and when they are no longer useful, they take their final draught and die. One summer little Caitlin Jacob sees something so contradictory to the laws of the island that she must share it with the others. 20180322. Girls Fiction. Coming of age Fiction. Cults Fiction. Islands Fiction. Science fiction. Bildungsromans. Dystopian fiction. TXNES