With Blue Ticket, Sophie Mackintosh has created another mesmerizing, refracted vision of our world that explores the impossible decisions women have to make when society restricts their choices. Pregnant and desperate, Calla must contend with whether or not the lottery knows her better than she knows herself-and what that might mean for her child. When Calla, a blue-ticket woman, begins to question her fate, she must go on the run. But what if the life you're given is the wrong one? And once you've taken your ticket, there is no going back. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice. A controlling father imposed his warped definition of female nature on his daughters in Sophie Mackintosh’s first book, The Water Cure, longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2018, and. A blue ticket grants you a career and freedom. A white ticket grants you marriage and children. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. 'Blue Ticket adds something new to the dystopian tradition set by Orwell’s 1984 or Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.' -New York Times Book ReviewĬalla knows how the lottery works. Pregnant and desperate, Calla must contend with whether or not the lottery knows her better than she knows herself and what that might mean for her child.Īn urgent inquiry into free will, social expectation, and the fraught space of motherhood, Blue Ticket is electrifying in its raw evocation and desire and riveting in its undeniable familiarity.From the author of the Booker Prize longlisted novel The Water Cure comes another mesmerizing, refracted vision of our society: What if the life you're given is the wrong one? But her survival will be dependent on the very qualities the lottery has taught her to question in herself and on the other women the system has pitted against her. When Calla, a blue ticket woman, begins to question her fate, she must go on the run. Fawn Creek Township is in Montgomery County. But what if the life you're given is the wrong one? Fawn Creek Township is located in Kansas with a population of 1,618. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice.

Her fiction, non-fiction and poetry has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, Dazed and the Guardian. A white ticket grants you marriage and children. Mackintosh is the author of Blue Ticket and The Water Cure, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In a world where women can't have it all, don't underestimate the relief of a decision being taken away from you.Ĭalla knows how the lottery works.

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