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Sanctuary

by Paola Mendoza

A family’s flight through a tracked America

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A family’s flight through a tracked America

Set in 2032, Sanctuary imagines an America where implanted chips make citizens’ movements visible to the state. That surveillance system shapes the danger facing sixteen-year-old Vali, an undocumented immigrant whose family is driven from its home in Vermont after a raid. Their attempt to reach safety gives the novel’s near-future premise a personal focus, while its central concerns include immigration, xenophobia, family, and the search for sanctuary. The description ends before naming their destination, so the journey’s outcome is left open here.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in near-future dystopian fiction.
  • Readers seeking fiction about immigration, refugees, and xenophobia.
  • Readers interested in stories centered on family survival and displacement.

Themes

Surveillance and state controlImmigration and displacementXenophobiaFamily survivalSanctuary

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Book overview

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

"Like classic dystopian novels 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 . . . Sanctuary feels all too real in today's oddly apocalyptic world."--Teen Vogue

"A story of survival and hope, Sanctuary is a gripping work of fiction with a message about xenophobia that's rooted in a scarily real world."--The New York Times

It's 2032, and in this near-future America, all citizens are chipped and tracked--on buses, in grocery stores, everywhere. 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 her mother's counterfeit chip starts malfunctioning and the Deportation Force raids their town, they are forced to flee.

Now on the run, Vali and her family are desperately trying to make it to her T
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