Through forged friendships of some other children her age, Kira and her friends begin to learn the secrets of the society that they live in and that it isn’t the utopia that it claims to be. To prove her worth to society and to avoid being taken to “The Fields” and left for certain death, Kira uses her gift of embroidery to make robes of different colours for one of the higher-ups in the society. Because people with disabilities are usually left for dead in this society, Kira lives a severely marginalised life. Set in the same universe as The Giver, Gathering Blue follows the protagonist, Kira, a young, orphaned woman who was born with a deformed leg. If you liked The Giver, then you will almost certainly like Lois Lowry’s second instalment in her Giver quartet, the 2000 novel Gathering Blue. The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwoodĩ Books like The Giver Gathering Blue, by Lois Lowry.
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