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&;Wow! Shades of Fahrenheit 451 and Orwell&;s 1984. Painfully real and urgent. Read this book.&; &;Michael Grant, New York Times bestselling author of the Gone seriesBestselling author Joelle Charbonneau&;s eerily timely, high-stakes page-turner is destined to start important conversations at this particular moment in our history. Meri Beckley lives in a world without lies. When she looks at the peaceful Chicago streets, she feels pride in the era of unprecedented hope and prosperity over which the governor presides.But when Meri&;s mother is killed, Meri suddenly has questions that no one else seems to be asking. And when she tries to uncover her mother&;s state of mind in her last weeks, she finds herself drawn into a secret world with a history she didn&;t know existed.Suddenly, Meri is faced with a choice between accepting the &;truth&; or embracing a world the government doesn&;t want anyone to see&;a world where words have the power to change the course of a country and where the wrong ones can get Meri killed.