Ava, a teenage lady living aboard the male-dominated deep space merchant ship Parastrata, encounters betrayal, banishment, and death. Taking her fate into her own hands, she flees towards the Gyre, a floating continent of garbage and scrap in the Pacific Ocean, in this thrilling, amazing, and thought-provoking debut novel that will appeal to fans of Over the Universe, by Beth Revis, and The Handmaid’s Story, by Margaret Atwood. Internationally bestselling author Stephanie Perkins called it “outstanding, about Salvage feminist research fiction.”

Ava is the captain’s little girl. This enables her limited independence and a certain position in the Parastrata’s rigid society-but it doesn’t indicate she can read or write or even endure the makes of gravity. When Ava discovers she is to be traded in relationship to another product owner ship, she hopes to discover the best. After all, she is the captain’s daughter. But instead, betrayal, banishment, and a brush with love and death are her destiny, and Ava stows apart on a mail sloop bound for Earth in order to get away both her past and her upcoming. The gravity nearly kills her. Gradually recuperating within a stranger’s floating cabin in the Gyre, an enormous mass of scrap and garbage in the Pacific Ocean, Ava begins to learn the true meaning of family and home and trust-and she begins to nourish her very own strength and soul. This sweeping and harrowing novel explores themes of preference, agency, rebellion, and family members, and after a tidal influx destroys the Gyre and those who live there, eventually sends its main character on an exciting trip to Mumbai, the beating heart of Alexandra Duncan’s post-climate change Globe. An Andre Norton Prize nominee.