SYNOPSIS
In Earth’s not too distant future, seas consume coastal cities, highways disintegrate underwater, and mutant fish lurk in pirate-controlled depths. Skipper, a skilled sailor and the youngest of three sisters, earns money skimming and reselling plastic from the ocean to care for her ailing grandmother.
But then her eldest sister, Nora, goes missing. Nora left home a decade ago in pursuit of a cure for failing crops all over the world. When Skipper and her other sister, Carmen, receive a cryptic plea for help, they must put aside their differences and set out across the sea to find―and save―her. As they voyage through a dying world both beautiful and strange, encountering other travelers along the way, they learn more about their sister’s work and the corporations that want what she discovered.
But the farther they go, the more uncertain their mission becomes: What dangerous attention did Nora attract, and how well do they really know their sister―or each other? Thus begins an epic journey spanning oceans and continents and a wistful rumination on sisterhood, friendship, and ecological disaster.
REVIEW
Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei is a dystopian novel about three sisters that reads more like a journey and it was enthralling every step of the way. A ravaged world wrought by a global famine, a sister goes missing. We follow the other two sisters as they try to find her, and find themselves.
I was a fan of how this story was told. There were three parts and each POV was of a different siter. It was refreshing to see each sisters perspectives throughout their journey and this was a brilliant way of showing the world through different eyes. I enjoyed the journey aspect of the story. There were no place names however their was a familiarity left for us to determine and the way that Kitasei described such a bleak landscape was horrifying.
This wasn’t just a story where characters go on a journey and find themselves, this was a journey of hope. We don’t have resolved plot points, a happy-ending or drama-free results. As Kitasei said – “and then life went on, in spite of everything”. This was a greatly written dystopian novel that will resonate with many readers that are looking for something real.
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