Gather the Daughters

On a remote island where girls face a terrible fate, they must find the courage to rise up in this dystopian novel: "a spooky, sure-footed debut" (People).

Years ago, ten men and their families escaped an incinerated mainland and colonized a distant island. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of knowledge and history. Only the Wanderers—chosen male descendants of the original ten—return to the wastelands, where they scavenge for det...