Novel Chat: Scythe

Dear Faculty, Staff, and Students,

The Clarkson University Libraries Golden Knights Novel Chat’s next read will be Scythe by Neal Shusterman. We will meet Thursday, April 23 at 5pm in ERC 2207A. To add this to your calendar, click here.

From Amazon: 

Two teens must learn the “art of killing” in this Printz Honor–winning book, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology.

A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control.

Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe—a role that neither wants. These teens must master the “art” of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own.

Scythe is the first novel of a thrilling new series by National Book Award–winning author Neal Shusterman in which Citra and Rowan learn that a perfect world comes only with a heavy price.”

Past reads have included The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin, Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann, Circe by Madeline Miller, and New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson. For a full list of what we read last year, click here.

If you cannot make it to this meeting, but want to be included in future meetings, email Public Services Librarian Lisa Hoover at lhoover@clarkson.edu.

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