Glory O'Brien's History of the Future by A.S. King
Glory O'Brien is finally dealing with the long-ago suicide of her mother, is graduating high school, oh, and is also God. She became God by drinking the remains of a petrified bat along with her best friend, Ellie. Ellie lives on a hippie commune across the street, and together her and Glory discover that the bat has granted them the power to see selective things about the future when they look into the eyes of passersby. This is how Glory sees a future of totalitarian dictatorship rule and the rights of women being taken away. Glory begins to question herself and fears she may be going crazy like her mother did before she killed herself. Glory O'Brien's History of the Future is magical realism at its finest, as it paints a future dystopia that Glory begins to chronicle in an attempt to warn others.
Grades 9 & up.
King, A.S. (2015). Glory O'Brien's history of the future. New York, NY: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.
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