Blue Ticket: A Novel
From the author of the Booker Prize longlisted novel The Water Cure comes another mesmerizing, refracted vision of our society: What if the life you're given is the wrong one?
"Blue Ticket adds something new to the dystopian tradition set by Orwell's 1984 or Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." --New York Times Book Review Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you marriage and children. A blue ticket grants you a career and freedom. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice. And once you've taken your ticket, there is no going back. But what if the life you're given is the wrong one? When Calla, a blue-ticket woman, begins to question her fate, she must go on the run. Pregnant and desperate, Calla must contend with whether or not the lottery knows her better than she knows herself--and what that might mean for her child. With Blue Ticket, Sophie Mackintosh has created another mesmerizing, refracted vision of our world that explores the impossible decisions women have to make when society restricts their choices.
"Blue Ticket adds something new to the dystopian tradition set by Orwell's 1984 or Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." --New York Times Book Review Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you marriage and children. A blue ticket grants you a career and freedom. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice. And once you've taken your ticket, there is no going back. But what if the life you're given is the wrong one? When Calla, a blue-ticket woman, begins to question her fate, she must go on the run. Pregnant and desperate, Calla must contend with whether or not the lottery knows her better than she knows herself--and what that might mean for her child. With Blue Ticket, Sophie Mackintosh has created another mesmerizing, refracted vision of our world that explores the impossible decisions women have to make when society restricts their choices.
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I really struggled with this book
I struggled with the plot, the characters, and the style of writing
Unknown setting - im assuming because it's a dystopian novel, this is because we should be thinking of an alternate reality
When gurls first menstruate, they are taken to a "Doctor" to be checked ovwr and then to collect their ticket.
Almost a lottery/roulette type scenario in which if you receive a blue ticket, you are forced to use contraception for life and those with white tickets, the opposite.
The consensus is that those with blue tickets are free to live their life as they see fit - without becoming mothers
Whereas those with white tickets are resigned to becoming wives and mothers.
It just didn't make sense to me
I had so many questions
Maybe recently becoming a mother clouded my judgement and thought process of the book. The book was written fairly recently and at present, there is a lot of press and conversations happening surrounding womens rights, especially to do with the control we have over our own reproduction.
I found the lack of story telling and the dialogue-less and none descript style of writing made the book a difficult read and fell flat for me.
Maybe it is some bookish peoples cup of tea, but unfortunately, not mine
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