The Past Is Red

<p>“The <i>Candide</i> of our #@$\*%?! age.”— Ken Liu, award-winning author<br><br><b>Catherynne M. Valente, the bestselling and award-winning creator of <i>Space Opera</i> and <i>The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland</i> returns with <i>The Past Is Red</i>, the enchanting, dark, funny, angry story of a girl who made two terrible mistakes: she told the truth and she dared to love the world.</b><br><br><b>A Hugo Award finalist! </b><b>An </b><b>inaugural </b><b>Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction finalist</b><b>! </b><b>A Locus Award finalist!</b><br><br>The future is blue. Endless blue...except for a few small places that float across the hot, drowned world left behind by long-gone fossil fuel-guzzlers. One of those patches is a magical place called Garbagetown.<br><br>Tetley Abednego is the most beloved girl in Garbagetown, but she’s the only one who knows it. She’s the only one who knows a lot of things: that Garbagetown is the most wonderful place in the world, that it’s full of hope, that you can love someone and 66% hate them all at the same time.<br><br>But Earth is a terrible mess, hope is a fragile thing, and a lot of people are very angry with her. Then Tetley discovers a new friend, a terrible secret, and more to her world than she ever expected.</p>