Kira is a disabled girl whose mother had just died and she is left to try and fend for herself while some woman in the village want her sent away. This society is a more dark and savage civilization that does not treat all citizen equal. In this companion novel to The Giver by Lois Lowry, Kira is living in a village that is almost the complete opposite of Jonas’s community from The Giver. *Warning this may contain spoilers because it is a companion novel* Blessed with an almost magical talent that keeps her alive, she struggles with ever broadening responsibilities in her quest for truth, discovering things that will change her life forever. Left orphaned and physically flawed, young Kira faces a frightening, uncertain future. It is a society ruled by savagery and deceit that shuns and discards the weak. In her strongest work to date, Lois Lowry once again creates a mysterious but plausible future world. “You are stronger than those who have none.” “ Take pride in your pain,” her mother had always told her.
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