Pills and starships / Millet, Lydia

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9781617752766
9781617752759
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2013956781
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Pills and starships

In a future of ecological disaster, the wealthy live so long they choose when to die. On a good-bye trip with their parents, Nat and Sam learn there is more to the world--and their family--than they knew.

Pills and starships

Seventeen-year-old Nat and her hacker brother Sam have come to Hawaii for their parents' Final Week. Global warming has devastated the planet, and the disintegrating society that remains is run by "corporates" who keep the population complacent through a constant diet of "pharma." The few Americans who stil live well also live long -- so long that older adults, like Nat's parents, blow out not by natural means but by buying death contracts. While Nat grapples with the bizarre ritual of her parents' slickly engineered last days, Sam begins to uncover a secret, wilder Hawaii hidden beneath the high-gloss corporate veneer. Their family's Final Week races toward its climax in the face of a looming hurricane as Nat struggles to protect herself and the people she loves -- along the way forging her own surprising path to hope.
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