The The Divide

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"The celebrated novelist Soween Clay-Flyn recalls this period in recent history based on documents of the time, including her own personal diary as a young girl who lived through it and survived to tell the tale. In the aftermath of a deadly contagion which has decimated the population, contact between men and women has become fatal. Under the dictates of an unseen authoritarian leader known as The Preacher, an unthinkable solution has been enforced. Soween and her older brother Elihu grow up learning the ways of their tightly controlled society. Then, to Soween's alarm, Elihu, as he reaches pubescence, risks not only a fatal disease but also threatens to ignite a bloody revolution"--Cover flap