NATIONAL BESTSELLER Co-founder of the Women’s March Paola Mendoza and award-winning writer Abby Shers timely, haunting near-future dystopian where a young girl and her brother must escape a xenophobic government to find sanctuary.

It’s 2032, and in this near-future America, all citizens are chipped and everyone is tracked–from buses to grocery stores. It’s almost impossible to survive as an undocumented immigrant, but that’s exactly what sixteen-year-old Vali is doing. She and her family have carved out a stable, happy life in small-town Vermont, but when Vali’s mother’s counterfeit chip starts malfunctioning and the Deportation Forces raid their town, they are forced to flee.

Now on the run, Vali and her family are desperately trying to make it to her ta Luna’s in California, a sanctuary state that is currently being walled off from the rest of the country. But when Vali’s mother is detained before their journey even really begins, Vali must carry on with her younger brother across the country to make it to safety before it’s too late.

Gripping and urgent, co-authors Paola Mendoza and Abby Sher have crafted a narrative that is as haunting as it is hopeful in envisioning a future where everyone can find sanctuary.

Paola Mendozais an author, film director, activist, and artist working at the leading edge of human rights. A co-founder of the Womens March, she served as its artistic director. Her writing has appeared inThe New York Times,Huffington Post,Glamour,ElleandInStyle. Paola is a co-founder of The Resistance Revival Chorus, The Soze Agency and The Meteor.

Abby Sheris an award-winning writer and performer. She is the author ofMiss You Love You Hate You Bye,All the Ways the World Can End,Breaking Free,Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn’t Stop Praying, andKissing Snowflakes. One of her essays was included in the first season of Amazon TV’sModern Love. Abby has written and performed for the Second City, Upright Citizens Brigade, HBO, and NPR.

• Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books
• Publish Date: August 31, 2021
• Pages: 336
• Language: English
• Type: Paperback
• EAN/UPC: 9781984815736
• Dimensions: 8.3 X 5.4 X 0.8 inches | 0.6 pounds
• BISAC Categories: Teens & YA Popular Fiction, Teens & YA Popular Fiction, Teens & YA Popular Fiction