{"product_id":"book-dli2","title":"Blue Ticket","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e*BELLETRIST'S AUGUST 2020 BOOK PICK*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Mackintosh's] writing is clear and sharp, with piercing moments of wisdom and insight that drive toward a pitch-perfect ending\u003c\/b\u003e…\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlue Ticket\u003c\/i\u003e adds something new to the dystopian tradition set by Orwell’s \u003ci\u003e1984 \u003c\/i\u003eor Atwood’s \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid’s Tale.\" -New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted novel \u003ci\u003eThe Water Cure\u003c\/i\u003e (\"ingenious and incendiary\"-\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e) comes another mesmerizing, refracted vision of our society: What if the life you're given is the wrong one?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCalla 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?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn urgent inquiry into free will, social expectation, and the fraught space of motherhood, \u003ci\u003eBlue Ticket\u003c\/i\u003e is electrifying in its raw evocation of desire and riveting in its undeniable familiarity.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49326910832944,"sku":"BDdli2","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/dli2-Square-cover.jpg?v=1776549666","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dli2","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}