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by Karlyn Borysenko (Author)
A darkly satirical reimagining of Lewis Carroll's classic for the modern era.
When thirteen-year-old Alice asks a forbidden question in her increasingly ideology-driven middle school, she discovers that curiosity has become a crime. One innocent inquiry: "What is a woman?" sends her tumbling down a rabbit hole into a surreal world where language is violence, identity is fluid, and everyone must constantly apologize for existing.In this twisted Wonderland, Alice encounters:
- Workshop facilitators who teach students to "unbecome" themselves
- A Mad Hatter hosting an eternal tea party of deconstructed reality
- Shape-shifters in a forest where being certain about anything is considered toxic
- A drag queen ruling over a garden of severed heads that never stop apologizing
- Tribunals where asking questions is prosecuted as thoughtcrime
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury