The Country Of Ice Cream Star
Sandra Newman“What sets [this book] apart from its rivals is the extraordinary, blistering insistence of its language...As the momentum builds... raw, addictive lyricism develops... By the last page, I was emotionally battered but euphoric: the book had held me so effectively hostage that I felt I had Stockholm syndrome.” - The Guardian UK
In the ruins of a future America, a fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her nomadic tribe live off the detritus of a crumbled civilization. Theirs is a world of children; before reaching the age of twenty, they all die of a mysterious disease they call Posies - a plague that has killed for generations. There is no medicine, no treatment; only the mysterious rumour of a cure.
"Sandra Newman has created a language for Ice Cream Star that is unique, both broken down and rapturous, full of powerful feeling as well as laconic toughness, and flashing with gorgeous detail. This is a brilliantly plausible dystopia, a thrilling adventure and altogether an amazing book." - Adam Foulds
Guardian First Book Award finalist Sandra Newman delivers an extraordinary post-apocalyptic literary epic as imaginative as The Passage and as linguistically ambitious as Cloud Atlas. The Country Of Ice Cream Star is a breathtaking work from a writer of rare and unconventional talent.