Gutter child : a novel / Jael Richardson. [CELA]
Material type: SoundProducer: Toronto : CNIB, 2021Publisher: Toronto : CELA, 2021Description: 1 computer optical disc (11 hr., 27 min., 21 sec.) : sound ; 12 cmContent type:- spoken word
- computer
- computer disc
- 9781039524798
- 1039524796
- Dystopias -- Fiction
- Social classes -- Fiction
- Indentured servants -- Fiction
- Canadian fiction -- Women authors
- Dystopies -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Classes sociales -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Main-d'œuvre engagée à long terme -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Canadian fiction -- Women authors
- Dystopias
- Indentured servants
- Social classes
- PS8635.I33345 G88 2021
- af101fs
- Issued also in online resource format.
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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CELA CD books | West Grey Durham Branch Shelves | CELA 007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 33321003247872 |
Narrated by Kathy Stinson.
Audio and text.
"A fierce and illuminating debut from FOLD founder Jael Richardson about a young woman who must find the courage to determine her own future and secure her freedom Set in an imagined world in which the most vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom by working off their debt to society, Gutter Child uncovers a nation divided into the privileged Mainland and the policed Gutter. In this world, Elimina Dubois is one of only 100 babies taken from the Gutter and raised in the land of opportunity as part of a social experiment led by the Mainland government. But when her Mainland mother dies, Elimina finds herself all alone, a teenager forced into an unfamiliar life of servitude, unsure of who she is and where she belongs. Elimina is sent to an academy with new rules and expectations where she befriends Gutter children who are making their own way through the Gutter System in whatever ways they know how. When Elimina's life takes another unexpected turn, she will discover that what she needs more than anything may not be the freedom she longs for after all. Richardson's Gutter Child reveals one young woman's journey through a fractured world of heartbreaking disadvantages and shocking injustices. Elimina is a modern heroine in an altered but all too recognizable reality who must find the strength within herself to forge her future and defy a system that tries to shape her destiny."-- Provided by publisher
Issued also in online resource format.
Reproduced from: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Harper Avenue, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., [2021]. 9781443457828
DAISY 2.02 standard; MP3 compression at 32 kbps.
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