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Title: North to Nara
Author: Amanda Marin
Genre: YA Dystopian
About North to Nara:
Neve Hall has always admired the good works of the civil servants who brought prosperity back to the Nation. She especially respects the Sufferers—empaths who, with the help of technology, anonymously bear others’ troubles for them. But when her assigned empath is abruptly retired, she uncovers certain secrets. Like the identity of her new Sufferer, Micah Ward... and the fact that behind his kind smile is a life filled with loneliness and pain. The closer Neve grows to Micah, the more desperate she becomes to protect him from a cruel and gruesome fate. But in a world where only a few are allowed the luxury of love, saving Micah comes with a price: Neve must choose between her loyalty to the Nation or her heart—a decision that will take them both on a race for their freedom, and their lives.
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Excerpt...
I have no way of knowing if my attempt
to keep pain from Micah has worked—I don’t, at least, until a couple days
later, when he visits me again in the butterfly exhibit. We walk around the
museum corridors once more, this time in a different direction, on a different
floor—through an exhibit on horses. And we talk.
“Did you
suppress things this week at the Center?” He asks this almost immediately,
after he tells me the director still hasn’t made a decision about his
punishment.
I bite my
lip and glance away, trying to distract myself by examining a prehistoric
drawing of a pony. If I admit the truth, Micah might ask me more questions. He
might ask why I did it. And even though I know the answer—because I think it’s
cruel what the Nation has done to him, because I like being near him, and
because I almost certainly care more about him than I should—the idea of
telling him all this scares me.
“Yes,” I
say, my voice small and timid. “How did you know?”
“It felt
different this time,” he explains softly. “It was easier. Less painful.”
I look up
at him again. “Then I’m glad,” I tell him. “That was what I hoped for.”
He pauses,
and I see the confusion in his face, the way it knits his eyebrows closer
together. He’s never had a Sieve suppress feelings to protect him before, I’m
sure. He’s only ever had them take from him. He doesn’t quite seem to know what
to make of it.
“You know
you don’t have to do that, right…?” he asks.
“I know.”
Micah’s
quiet a moment as we continue walking, probably guessing correctly the reasons
for my suppression, whether I say them out loud or not. I’ve been paper-thin to
him since our first Suffering session, after all: he’s always seen through me.
Then, as we round a corner, his hand brushes against mine. His fingertips
gently graze against my knuckles, testing to see if I pull away.
I don’t.
Instead, I
slip my hand into his.
And he
smiles.
About Amanda Marin:
When Amanda was a child, her father traveled frequently for business, always bringing her back a book as a present. Whether she was getting lost in the pages of a tale about far-away knights, girls with supernatural powers, or kindly giants, she was quickly hooked on stories. Over the years, Amanda has followed her own yellow brick road of reading and writing, and although her adventures haven't involved sword fights or saving the planet from certain annihilation, they have involved jobs in scholarly publishing and marketing, a modest amount of travel, and a lifelong love of novels. Amanda holds degrees in English from Salve Regina University and Boston College. Her favorite things include Starbucks lattes, lazy summer afternoons at the beach, and books with characters that make you go "awww." She lives in New Hampshire with her family and furbaby, Snickers the Poodle.
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