The dehumanizing of the youth scheduled for unwinding can easily be a metaphor for a number of other groups who, in real present-day life experience a devaluing of existence. However, the detailed backstory about the political move toward the decision to legalize and promote the unwind procedure helped make the premise more believable. Then the stench of rumors, chaos and death threaten to destroy the delicate balance required to protect so many from death and discovery, and Connor, Risa and Lev are forced to take sides in a conflict that could cost their lives.Īt first it was difficult to suspend disbelief enough to become immersed in a story-world that devalues its youth so completely as Schusterman’s fictitious society does. At first the community seems like a wonderful miracle. Together the three evade police and government officials only to discover an entire underground network of runaway kids scheduled for unwinding. While on the run, he meets Risa, a girl scheduled to undergo the unwinding process and Lev, a young teen whose family raised him to be unwound as a tithe to God. When Connor’s parents schedule to have him unwound, meaning all parts of his body would be redistributed to others, he flees. Published NovemAmazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads
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