“Far into the future, after a plague has wiped out millions of people and genetically modified seeds have left most of the rest of the population sterile, a young man opens a stasis tube he finds in a sub-basement and resuscitates a beautiful girl who has been asleep for sixty-two years. She is now sixteen, more or less, and her story is dark and sad. Rosalinda was the daughter of very wealthy parents who traveled a lot and, whenever they left, or whenever they felt she needed a time out, would put her in stasis, eventually letting her out. She moved from school to school because she wasn’t very good at it and so never got close to anyone except for Xander, the baby boy next door . . . Sixty-two years later, everyone she ever knew is dead. She’s in a foreign world, barely understands the language and her only true friend is an alien, someone who is as much a freak as she is . . . This is a very good story, with great world building, and the characters were well-developed. Ages 13 and up.”—Rene Kirkpatrick, Third Place Books, Seattle. Buy A Long Long Sleep from Third Place Books.
Face Out
A Long Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan
October 7, 2011