The Country of Ice Cream Star

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“Haunting and heartbreaking…an epic about love and hope that will inspire.”

“Makes The Hunger Games seem wimpy.”

“Probably the next Divergent…An engrossing, thrilling read.”

“The Country of Ice Cream Star is in many ways a classic story, craftily retold and made contemporary…It’s possible that this intrepid girl is the Frodo Baggins our times deserve.”

“Full of supple metaphors and rhythmic lyricism.”

“What makes the novel so fascinating—and, yes, so challenging—is the language Newman has created.”

“A brave new/old world that delivers on multiple levels, especially Ice Cream Star’s alluring language.”

“What sets The Country of Ice Cream Star apart from its rivals is the extraordinary, blistering insistence of its language…By the last page I was emotionally battered but euphoric.”

“Newman manages to imbue her heroine with a hope and resiliency that will surpass the ravages of a woebegone time.”

“What sets the work apart is its unapologetic narrator, whose fantastically unbridled, wholly teenage point of view renders each page a pleasure to read.”

“This suspenseful, provocative tale is The Hunger Games meets Lord of the Flies and The Walking Dead, only much, much better.”

“This literary dystopia inhabits a fully imagined, remarkably inventive universe…The patient reader will be intrigued by the poetic prose and captivated by the exploits of Ice Cream Star.”

“Newman’s story is inventive, her characters memorable…praiseworthy for its solid efforts at world building.”

“Narrator Lisa Renee Pitts narrates this post-apocalyptic novel with feeling…Listeners who can move past the dialect will find the story of children surviving at world’s end engaging as Pitts’ melodic voice, full of warm undertones, brings them closer to the emotional core of Ice Cream Star’s struggle for survival.”

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