![]() The book's carefree sexuality and exploitation makes it uncomfortable, scandalous, and not easily forgotten-there's little doubt that's exactly what McCafferty is going for. ![]() There's a predictable though entertaining identity switch, and readers must wait until the next book to learn if these girls end up with the lives (and guys) they want. ![]() Yet she also raises challenging questions about individuality and morality. They plan to work at the local mall until he dumps her out of the blue and says he found someone else. McCafferty (the Jessica Darling series) has enormous fun in her first YA novel: tweens, aka "nubie-pubies," try on Preggerz FunBumps,ĭesigned to mimic pregnancy expectant teens munch on Folato Chips for folic acid boosts and slang like "fertilicious," "terminal," and "barren" is used with abandon. The Mall takes place in 1991 and is about a girl named Cassie who is leaving for college in six weeks with her boyfriend. Chapters alternate between the perspectives of two 16-year-old twins, separated at birth: deeply religious Harmony, raised in god-fearing, vaguely Amish "Goodside," and Melody, whose adoptive parents haveīeen crafting her into the perfect Reproduction Professional or RePro, sought by wealthy, barren couples. A virus has left everyone over the age of 18 unable to procreate, making teenagers the only viable "breeders" and spawning a pregnancy-obsessed future society. ![]() McCafferty proves that dystopias don't have to be dreary to be provocative. ![]()
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