The Testament of Jessie Lamb
Jane Rogers • 2011
Devastation Rating
cults dystopian literary fiction loss
Our Take
A pandemic kills pregnant women and sixteen-year-old Jessie volunteers for an experimental procedure that will save humanity but cost her life. Rogers writes teenage idealism as a kind of cult thinking — the devotion to a cause that consumes the devotee. The ending is as inevitable as it is unbearable.
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