In A Violent Age, Ruth and Lisa are a mother-daughter duo trying to make it through high school. Ruth is the school therapist, and Lisa is a junior, wrapped up in SAT practice, AP exams, dances, and her first crushes. Ruth is part of a new government-mandated program that has the purported goal of preventing school shootings by providing much-needed mental health care to teenagers, but it's more about surveillance than care. The role Ruth has to play in the school swings between comical and heartbreaking as A Violent Age straddles the line between satire and science fiction.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Genre: Literary Fiction
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