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008			170724s2017 enk e 000 1 eng d
020			_a9781472241719 (paperback)
040			_aYDX _cYDX _erda
042			_aanuc
082	0	4	_a813.6
100	1		_aMelamed, Jennie.
245	1	0	_aGather the daughters / _cJennie Melamed.
264		1	_aLondon : _bTinder Press, _c2017.
264		4	_c©2017
300			_a341 pages ; _c24 cm.
500			_a"Every summer, the girls run wild. They know it could be their last"--Cover.
520			_aA smoldering novel about an insular community on an island at the end of the world and the girls who start to question the rules that bind them. On a small isolated island, there is a community that lives by its own rules. Boys grow up knowing they will one day reign inside and outside the home, while girls know they will be married and pregnant within moments of hitting womanhood. But before that time comes, there is an island ritual that offers children an exhilarating reprieve. Every summer they are turned out onto their doorsteps to roam wild: they run, they fight, they sleep on the beach and build camps in trees. They are free. It is at the end of one of these summers, as the first frost laces the ground, that one of the younger girls witnesses something she was never supposed to see. And she returns home, muddy and terrified, clutching in her small hand a truth that could unravel their carefully constructed island world forever.
650		1	_aIslands _xFiction.
650		0	_aEnd of the world _vFiction.
650		0	_aGirls _vFiction.
850			_aNJSN