Cori McCarthy’s debut YA novel, The Color of Rain, envisions a dystopic world that’s darker than most. Set on a brutally industrialized future Earth, whose population is being decimated by an Alzheimer’s-like disease, it tracks a young woman’s efforts to save her brother from the illness. Their only hope for survival lies in going off […]
I think we as a society don’t give our young adults enough credit—we’re continually underestimating what they can understand. That’s why I love young adult novels that don’t portray the world in black and white but in varying shades of gray—novels that explore complex and potentially divisive issues head on.