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Goodhouse / Peyton Marshall.

by Marshall, Peyton, 1972-

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2014.

Boys -- Fiction.

Eugenics -- Fiction.

Free will and determinism -- Fiction.

Children of criminals -- Fiction.

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"A bighearted dystopian novel about the corrosive effects of fear and the redemptive power of love by first time novelist Peyton Marshall. At the end of the twenty-first century - in a transformed America - the families of convicted felons are tested for a set of genetic markers. Boys who test positive become compulsory wards of the state - removed from their homes and raised on Goodhouse campuses, where they learn to reform their darkest thoughts and impulses. Goodhouse is a feral place - part prison, part boarding school - and now a radical religious group, the Holy Redeemer's Church of Purity, has begun to target these schools for attack, with purifying fire. We see all this through the eyes of James, a transfer student who watched the radicals set fire to his old Goodhouse and everyone he'd ever known. In addition to entering a new school with new rules, James now has to contend with Bethany, a wild tech genius with a heart defect who wants to save him, and her father, the sinister director of medical studies. Soon, however, James realizes that the biggest threat might already be there, inside the fortified walls of Goodhouse. Partly based on the true story of the nineteenth-century Preston School of Industry and the boys who lived and died in its halls, Goodhouse explores questions of identity and free will - and what it means to test the limits of human endurance."--Publisher.

Dystopian fiction.

Science fiction.

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