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Jiles, Paulette, 1943-
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Orphans -- Fiction.
Overpopulation -- Fiction.
Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Fiction.
Northwest, Pacific -- Fiction.
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Jiles, Paulette, 1943-
Orphans -- Fiction.
Overpopulation -- Fiction.
Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Fiction.
Northwest, Pacific -- Fiction.
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Lighthouse
Island
: a
novel
/ Paulette Jiles.
by
Jiles, Paulette, 1943-
William Morrow, c2013.
Call #:
FICTION JIL
Subjects
Orphans -- Fiction.
Overpopulation -- Fiction.
Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Fiction.
Northwest, Pacific -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780062232502
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
392 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
In the coming centuries, the world's population has exploded and covered the earth with endless cities. Animals are nearly all gone. Drought plagues the land and cloudy water is issued by the quart. There are no maps, no borders, no numbered years. On this urban planet the only relief from the overcrowding, the petty informers, and the harsh rule of the big Agencies is the television in every living space, offering dreams of vanished waterfalls and the promise of virtual vacations in green spaces for the lucky few. It is an unwelcoming world for an orphan like Nadia Stepan, abandoned by her parents on a crowded street when she was four with only a drawing of the constellations of the Big Dipper--Cassiopeia's Chair and the North Star--and her mother's parting words: "Look to the North Star, and we will always be there." Shuttled from orphanage to orphanage, foster family to foster family, Nadia grows up dreaming of the vacation spot called
Lighthouse
Island
, in a place called the Pacific Northwest where she believes her long-lost parents must be. As her obsession grows, so too does her determination to find her way there.
Genre:
Dystopian fiction.
Science fiction.
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