The Country of Ice Cream Star Audiobook

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

  — Vanity Fair

• “Makes The Hunger Games seem wimpy.”

  — Wall Street Journal

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

  — Self

• “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.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Full of supple metaphors and rhythmic lyricism.”

  — Daily Telegraph (London)

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

  — Washington Post

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

  — Observer (London)

• “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.”

  — Guardian (London)

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

  — Shelf Awareness

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

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “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.”

  — Library Journal

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

  — Kirkus Reviews