The Country of Ice Cream Star

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<p><i>My name be Ice Cream Fifteen Star and this be the tale of how I bring the cure to all the Nighted States, save every poory children, short for life. Is how a city die for selfish love, and rise from this same smallness. Be how the new America begin, in wars against all hope a country with no power in a world that hate its life. So been the faith I sworn, and it aint evils in no world nor cruelties in no red hell can change the vally heart of Ice Cream Star.</i> <i></i> In the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her people survive by scavenging in the detritus of an abandoned civilization. Theirs is a world of children by the time they reach twenty, each of them will die from a disease they call posies. When her brother sickens, Ice Cream sets out on the trail of a cure, led by a stranger whose intentions remain unclear. Its a quest that will lead her to love and heartbreak, to captivity and to a nations throne, and ultimately into a war that threatens to doom everyone she loves.</p>

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Sandra Newman was born in America but also lived in England for 20 years. Her professions have ranged from academia to professional gambling. Her first novel,<i>The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done</i>, was shortlisted for the<i>Guardian</i>First Book Award. Her second novel,<i>Cake</i>, was published in 2007, and her memoir,<i>Changeling</i>, in 2010. She co-wrote<i>How NOT to Write a Novel</i>, an irreverent how-to guide. In 2012 she wrote<i>The Western Lit Survival Kit: How to Read the Classics Without Fear</i>. She lives in New York.

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