{"product_id":"the-collector-isbn-9781789099058","title":"The Collector","description":"\u003cb\u003eA frightening dystopian horror novel where grief is forbidden and purged from the mind – a nightmarish mix of 1984 and Never Let Me Go\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSorrow is inefficient. It’s also inescapable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLieutenant Dev Singh dutifully spends his days recording the memories of people who, struck with incurable depression, will soon have their minds erased in order to be more productive members of society. After all, the Bureau knows what's best for you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt night though, hidden in the dark, Dev remembers and writes in his secret journal the special moments shared with him – the small laugh of a toddler, the stillness of a late afternoon. The first flutter of love. But when the Bureau finds out he's been recounting the memories – and that the depression is in him, too – he’s sent to a sanatorium to heal. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA nightmarish descent from sadness to madness, \u003ci\u003eTHE COLLECTOR\u003c\/i\u003e is a dystopian horror novel where grief is forbidden and purged from the mind.\"Writing in spare prose, Young harkens to some of the dystopian greats, with a keeper of memories who seems right out of The Giver, and a horrific solstice celebration scene of public gore. Torture, brainwashing, and isolation add a satisfying bite of horror throughout....this unsettling tragedy cuts deep.\" - Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for The Butcher\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Young crafts a mean little world of stark landscapes and sharp edges, and beneath each turn lies a wound. Psychologically claustrophobic, and a harrowing debut.\"\u003cbr\u003eHailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Readers will be swept away by the fresh take on dystopia found in this intelligent, immersive horror novel drawing on both The Lottery and The Hunger Games. In a poverty-ridden mountain town ruled by unfeeling overlords and their monstrous code of punishment and retribution, Lady Mae will – one day – take on her mother’s role as the Butcher, delivering bloody eye-for-an-eye ‘justice’ to a resentful population. Her coming-of-age is brutal, and Laura Kat Young is unafraid to ask tough and necessary questions about corporal punishment, shared guilt, mob mentality, and who is served when the disadvantaged are pitted against each other.\"\u003cbr\u003eAlly Wilkes, author of All the White Spaces\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Immersive, original, and unflinching, The Butcher is a pitch-perfect dystopian Western. A satisfying, blood-spattered exploration of justice and vengeance.\"\u003cbr\u003eRachel Harrison, author of Cackle and The Return \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Savage beauty, unrelenting violence, and unbreakable love crash together in this powerful and hypnotic novel of a dystopian West and the young woman who wields an intellect and sense of justice and revenge sharper and more deadly than her butcher’s knives. A bleak, brutal, and thoroughly original meditation on the horrors and triumphs of life.” \u003cbr\u003eLivia Llewellyn, author of Engines of Desire and Furnace \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Butcher is being described as Shirley Jackson meets Never Let Me Go meets West World. Pretty wild combination, but it works!\"\u003cbr\u003eBook Riot\u003cb\u003eLaura Kat Young\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Butcher\u003c\/i\u003e, is a writer and teacher living in Chicago with her family. Her works blend genre and seek to explore a deeper understanding of human behavior. The 2019-2021 Writer-in-Residence at the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, her works have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Blood Pudding\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShoreline of Infinity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lindenwood Review\u003c\/i\u003e and others.  More can be found at www.laurakatyoung.com.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e@writerlylaura","brand":"Titan Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299826815205,"sku":"NP9781789099058","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781789099058.jpg?v=1767738743","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-collector-isbn-9781789099058","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}