SANCTURY
Ginny Fite
GENRE: Dystopian Speculative Fiction
BLURB:
Sometimes losing your children is the only way to save them. The year is 2039. Chased by government goons determined to quarantine her and a virus that might kill her at any time, Jean Bennett races a thousand miles to Canada to get her five children to safety. On a journey unlike any they’ve ever taken, Jean learns who she is and what she must do to save her children.
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Excerpt:
Elbow deep in dark, loamy soil, preparing this year’s vegetable garden, Caro says, “Even demons believe in God.” Her eyes are lowered, watch¬ing her own gloved hands transfer a tender tomato plant from its small pot to the ground.
Her sudden assertion doesn’t surprise me; we’ve been playing this game all our lives. This will be another argument in my sister’s perpetual attempt to crack open my agnostic armor. I’m accustomed to parrying her new thrusts.
She nailed a cross on her door when she was fifteen. I hung a bejew¬eled heart on mine. Ten years later, we argued about the sanctity of gurus when she taped an image of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on my refrigerator. I countered with a photograph of the owner of my local market. Three years ago, well before the infection, she began attending Friday evening Shabbat services; I took up Tarot card reading. These days, the figure of Death turns up frequently.
I sit back on my heels to watch her face. “I don’t believe in demons.”
“Maybe you should, Jean.” Caro purses and twists her lips—her expression on the rare occasion when I take her rook with my queen. She always beats me at chess, although sometimes I surprise her with a move or two.
My neck clicks as I roll my head around to stretch out the knots. I’m the older sibling, not the smarter one. Pragmatism is my religion. When the world is falling apart, doing what works is a virtue. At least, that’s what I tell myself to keep from going crazy.
My Review:
Stories like Sanctuary are my favorite; I can’t seem to get enough of them. Sanctuary is one of the greatest dystopian stories I have read so far. Sanctuary grabbed my attention from the first page, and it held on until the very end. I couldn’t have stopped reading if I had wanted to.
Sanctuary is a story about a mother, Jean, who is trying to get her children safely to Canada. A virus is running amok, only killing adults and saving the kids. No one knows why. After Jean becomes sick, she takes her kids away in the night, running from the virus police.
They try to keep to themselves on the road, as no one can be trusted and everyone is out for number one. Their journey is not an easy one, to say the least. Jean risks her own life to keep her kids safe numerous times. Jean is determined to make it to Canada before it is too late, no matter what it may cost her in the long run.
Sanctuary is a great story; I love the world-building and would love to see it made into a TV show. I know I would watch it over and over again. Sanctuary is a story that you hope never ends. You want it to go on forever and ever.
I highly recommend Sanctuary to all fans of dystopian stories. Grab a copy of Sanctuary today!
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Ginny Fite is an award-winning journalist and author of nine traditionally published novels, three collections of poetry, a collection of short stories, and a book of humorous essays on aging. A graduate of Rutgers University and Johns Hopkins University, her 40-year career in communications included posts in newspapers, government, higher education, and a robotics R&D company. Pushcart Prize nominated, shortlisted for the 2019 SFWP prize, a finalist for the 2020 Bakwin Prize, winner of the FAPA gold medal in fiction for the collaborative novel Thoughts & Prayers, her stories have appeared in The Delmarva Review, Women Arts Quarterly Journal, Heartwood Literary Magazine, Coffin Bell, and the Anthology of Appalachian Writers. Writing about ordinary people who grapple with extraordinary circumstances, her novels span the genres of mystery, thriller, adventure, speculative, and women’s fiction. Learn more at GinnyFite.com.
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Published novels:
Sanctuary
Leave Everything You Know Behind
The Physics of Things
Possession
Blue Girl on a Night Dream Sea
No End of Bad
Lying, Cheating and Occasionally Murder
No Good Deed Left Undone
Cromwell’s Folly
Thoughts & Prayers (co-author)
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4 comments:
Thank you so much for featuring and reviewing SANCTUARY.
Thanks for sharing. Sounds like a good read.
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