Seed Savers

“Impressively authentic.”–Midwest Ebook Evaluate

It’s late within the twenty-first century and enormous companies have merged with U.S. authorities businesses to manage the nation’s meals provide. Not solely is gardening and seed possession unlawful, however contemporary meals is unparalleled by the lots who’re fed the processed meals teams of Vitees, Proteins, Carbos, Snacks, and Sweeties.

13-year-old Clare and her brother Dante have escaped to Canada the place the outdated methods nonetheless exist. There that they make pals with the roguish Jason and be taught the political historical past of their very own nation’s decline of freedoms.

In the meantime, Lily, the buddy who was left behind, begins a journey to search out the daddy she by no means met—a former chief within the ill-fated Seed Savers rebel of fifteen years earlier. From Florida to the Smoky Mountains, Lily follows the indicators in quest of her father and is helped alongside the best way by the quirky characters she meets. To not point out the enticing Arturo who exhibits up halfway to “defend” her.

Heirloom seamlessly weaves the light agrarian story of Clare and Dante along with the swiftly-paced journey of Lily and Arturo. Themes of household, empowerment, and politics meet on this futuristic story nostalgic for the previous. Heirloom is a hopeful dystopia in immediately’s present sea of post-apocalyptic literature.