The Giver
Lois Lowry • 1993
Devastation Rating
dystopian loss literary fiction philosophical
Our Take
A perfect society that achieves perfection through erasure. Lowry wrote this for children and somehow that makes it worse. Jonas discovers colour, pain, love — and the cost of knowing what everyone else has been spared. The ending is ambiguous and that ambiguity is the cruelest part.
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