Blue Ticket

By Sophie Mackintosh

Book Overview

*BELLETRIST'S AUGUST 2020 BOOK PICK*

Mackintosh's] writing is clear and sharp, with piercing moments of wisdom and insight that drive toward a pitch-perfect ending...Blue Ticket adds something new to the dystopian tradition set by Orwell's 1984 or Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. --New York Times Book Review

From the author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted novel The Water Cure (ingenious and incendiary--The New Yorker) comes another mesmerizing, refracted vision of our society: What if the life you're given is the wrong one?

Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you marriage and children. A blue ticket grants you a career and freedom. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice. And once you've taken your ticket, there is no going back. But what if the life you're given is the wrong one?

When Calla, a blue ticket woman, begins to question her fate, she must go on the run. But her survival will be dependent on the very qualities the lottery has taught her to question in herself and on the other women the system has pitted against her. Pregnant and desperate, Calla must contend with whether or not the lottery knows her better than she knows herself and what that might mean for her child.

An urgent inquiry into free will, social expectation, and the fraught space of motherhood, Blue Ticket is electrifying in its raw evocation of desire and riveting in its undeniable familiarity.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385545630
• ISBN13: 9780385545631
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Really enjoyed this book

I guess a lot of people didn’t like this book due to the writing style or the overall storyline and that’s okay, obviously. If you’ve read Sophie Mackintosh’s first book then you know that that’s just her way of writing, which I personally find very appealing. The story itself is hard to read at times and I can understand how it could be polarizing but overall this is a really great book and I would highly recommend it.

It’s basically bad Handmaid’s Tale Wattpad-like “Fanfiction”

I went in to this book with an open mind because Dystopian stories are usually hit or miss with me and I hoped to like this but....it’s like a 12 year old on Wattpad wrote fanfiction for Handmaid’s Tale....it’s slow, repetitive and the plot in theory sounds good but it was truly awful, I could not bring myself to finish it. There is no proper use of quotations where dialogue is so everything runs together and it makes me wonder how this story was green-lighted with its grammar. I would try a different book in the Dystopian genre and skip over this one