Lauren Yero
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UNDER THIS FORGETFUL SKY...
Ship Breaker meets We Set the Dark on Fire in this story of breathless adventure and star-crossed love in a world divided by walls.
Sixteen-year-old Rumi Sabzwari has never seen the world beyond his city’s armored walls—through the lenses of his specs, sure, but not the real thing. So when his high-profile father falls sick with a mysterious illness, Rumi sees a way out. The cure for his father, if it exists, lies in the unknown world beyond his city’s walls. His father would kill him if he tried to leave. But for the first time in his life, Rumi has the chance to do something. How could he possibly stay?
In the ruined city of Paraíso, Rumi crosses paths with fifteen-year-old Paz, who offers to guide him on his perilous journey to find the curandera rumored to have the medicine his father needs. As they travel together, Rumi finds himself inexorably drawn to Paz. What he doesn’t know is that she has a deadly secret: she’s a spy for the very same rebels who infected his father in the first place.
Gain the boy’s trust, the rebels said when they recruited her. And together we’ll bring down Upper City. If only it were that easy. Now Paz must find a way to keep hating Rumi—even as they flee together from a pack of wild dogs. Even after he saves her from a knife’s eager blade. Even when his tears wet her skin…
At once a novel about first love, betrayal, and the power of stories to change the world, Under This Forgetful Sky weaves together the voices of two young characters as they struggle to find their place in a starkly unequal world.
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Ship Breaker meets We Set the Dark on Fire in this story of breathless adventure and star-crossed love in a world divided by walls.
Sixteen-year-old Rumi Sabzwari has never seen the world beyond his city’s armored walls—through the lenses of his specs, sure, but not the real thing. So when his high-profile father falls sick with a mysterious illness, Rumi sees a way out. The cure for his father, if it exists, lies in the unknown world beyond his city’s walls. His father would kill him if he tried to leave. But for the first time in his life, Rumi has the chance to do something. How could he possibly stay?
In the ruined city of Paraíso, Rumi crosses paths with fifteen-year-old Paz, who offers to guide him on his perilous journey to find the curandera rumored to have the medicine his father needs. As they travel together, Rumi finds himself inexorably drawn to Paz. What he doesn’t know is that she has a deadly secret: she’s a spy for the very same rebels who infected his father in the first place.
Gain the boy’s trust, the rebels said when they recruited her. And together we’ll bring down Upper City. If only it were that easy. Now Paz must find a way to keep hating Rumi—even as they flee together from a pack of wild dogs. Even after he saves her from a knife’s eager blade. Even when his tears wet her skin…
At once a novel about first love, betrayal, and the power of stories to change the world, Under This Forgetful Sky weaves together the voices of two young characters as they struggle to find their place in a starkly unequal world.
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ABOUT LAUREN...
Lauren Yero is a Cuban-American writer living in the mountains of Western North Carolina. She writes speculative, near-future stories of resistance, adventure, and first love that question the structures our world is built upon. Her debut YA novel, Under This Forgetful Sky, comes out Summer 2023 with Atheneum/Simon & Schuster.
Born in Florida, she received her BA from Davidson College and her MA in Environmental Literature from the University of Nevada Reno. She teaches at a farm-and-arts school in the beautiful rural county she calls home, where she also shares a small homestead with her partner, two kids, two pups, ten chickens, five geese, two ducks, and a couple hundred thousand honeybees.
laurenyero.com
Lauren Yero is a Cuban-American writer living in the mountains of Western North Carolina. She writes speculative, near-future stories of resistance, adventure, and first love that question the structures our world is built upon. Her debut YA novel, Under This Forgetful Sky, comes out Summer 2023 with Atheneum/Simon & Schuster.
Born in Florida, she received her BA from Davidson College and her MA in Environmental Literature from the University of Nevada Reno. She teaches at a farm-and-arts school in the beautiful rural county she calls home, where she also shares a small homestead with her partner, two kids, two pups, ten chickens, five geese, two ducks, and a couple hundred thousand honeybees.
laurenyero.com