In a space-faring future, supply ship 'crewes' have developed into patriarchal tribes, with strict gender roles and a mythology to justify them: 'Women of the air, stay aloft,' the girls of the vessel Parastrata are warned. An Andre Norton Award nominee.ĭuncan makes an excellent debut with a novel that's part feminist polemic and part coming-of-age adventure. This sweeping and harrowing novel explores themes of choice, agency, rebellion, and family, and after a tidal wave destroys the Gyre and all those who live there, ultimately sends its main character on a thrilling journey to Mumbai, the beating heart of Alexandra Duncan's post–climate change Earth. Gradually recuperating in a stranger's floating cabin on the Gyre, a huge mass of scrap and garbage in the Pacific Ocean, Ava begins to learn the true meaning of family and home and trust-and she begins to nourish her own strength and soul. But instead, betrayal, banishment, and a brush with love and death are her destiny, and Ava stows away on a mail sloop bound for Earth in order to escape both her past and her future. After all, she is the captain's daughter. When Ava learns she is to be traded in marriage to another merchant ship, she hopes for the best. This allows her limited freedom and a certain status in the Parastrata's rigid society-but it doesn't mean she can read or write or even withstand the forces of gravity.

Internationally bestselling author Stephanie Perkins called it 'brilliant, feminist science fiction.'Īva is the captain's daughter. Taking her fate into her own hands, she flees to the Gyre, a floating continent of garbage and scrap in the Pacific Ocean, in this 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. Ava, a teenage girl living aboard the male-dominated deep space merchant ship Parastrata, faces betrayal, banishment, and death.

Salvage by Alexandra Duncan