Fiction

Oh, my. Takes place in the near future, and Rory Miller is on the run with her friend Fee. They've been set up, made to seem the people who set off a bomb in a restroom of the exclusive Christian academy they attend the evening of the American Virtue Ball, where young women in wedding gowns promise their fathers they will remain virgins until marriage.

Really, really good.

I'm not sure in the end that I would recommend The Mandibles. It feels like the author greatly exaggerated societal changes that might be forthcoming, but of course that is exactly what needs to be done for a novel like that. She also seems to completely denigrate any kind of social services whatsoever, and admire a society where everyone is truly on their own, no safety net of any kind. Creepy. At least to me.