Things I will never forget: my name, my made-up birthday…The dark of the Hospital at night. My mother’s face, when she was young.
Things other people will forget: where they come from, how old they are, the faces of the people they love. The right words for bowl and sunshine…What is a beginning and what
is an end.
Joy spends her days working the graveyard shift at a store outside Boston and nursing an addiction to cough syrup, an attempt to suppress her troubled past. But when a sickness that begins with silver blisters and memory loss and ends with death sweeps the country, Joy, for the first time in her life, seems to have an advantage: she is immune.
At once a hauntingly beautiful portrayal of a dystopian future and a powerful exploration of loneliness.
- ISBN10 1785031325
- ISBN13 9781785031328
- Publish Date 4 June 2015 (first published 1 January 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 May 2017
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Cornerstone
- Imprint Del Rey
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English