Salvage — Alexandra Duncan

"Salvage" is a thrilling, surprising, and thought-provoking debut novel that will appeal to fans of "Across the Universe" by Beth Revis and "The Handmaid s Tale" by Margaret Atwood. This is literary science fiction with a feminist twist, and it explores themes of choice, agency, rebellion, and family.

Ava, a teenage girl living aboard the male-dominated, conservative deep-space merchant ship "Parastrata," faces betrayal, banishment, and death. Taking her fate into her own hands, she flees to the Gyre, a floating continent of garbage and scrap in the Pacific Ocean. But just because Ava is the daughter of "Parastata" s captain doesn t mean she can read or write or even withstand the forces of gravity. What choices will she make? How will she build a future on an earth ravaged by climate change?

This is a sweeping and harrowing novel that is not to be missed."