“With a poet’s ear for metaphor, Stone offers a prismatic look at disaster striking people already in crisis.””
Girl Minus X
Trade Paperback:
Wolsak & Wynn (October 2020)
296 PAGES | ISBN 978-1-989496-11-4
Audiobook:
OrangeSky (October 2021).
Narrated by Laci Morgan.
19 h 41 m | ISBN 978-1667001449
As the world around them collapses under the weight of a slow, creeping virus that erodes memory, fifteen-year-old Dany and her five-year-old sister are on the edge of their own personal apocalypse – fearing separation at the hands of child services. When a dangerous new strain of the virus emerges, Dany careens headlong into crisis, determined to save her sister. Together with her best friend and reluctant history teacher, they must flee the city. Along the way, Dany faces a series of devastating choices: Can she make the dangerous attempt to break her aunt out of the prison-hospice? And just how much is Dany willing to sacrifice to ensure her sister and her friends survive?
Girl Minus X is a meditation on the gift that is memory and its hidden costs, pitting a fear of forgetting against a desire to erase the past.
The audio book of Girl Minus X (read by Laci Morgan and released by OrangeSky, 2021) is available through all the major audiobook channels (including here)!
If you’d like to read an excerpt, you’ll find the first few chapters at Wolsak & Wynn.
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“Girl Minus X is what happens when great writing meets a mesmeric, page-turning plot. The best speculative fiction captures what we dimly imagine but intimately feel; and this book wins in its gripping tale of intense social crises, complicated family members, dismal pressures from school, and a young woman awakening to her own uncanny power. Anne Stone will captivate both teens and adults alike.””
“What if you could let go of your trauma? Now, what if that process was forced on you by a virus that robbed you of all memories? Girl Minus X explores the bonds between humans surviving mid-apocalypse. Nobody writes like Anne Stone. Get prepared for the unthinkable.”
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“If you love books about a different kind of infection induced apocalypse ... this is the book for you.””
“Girl Minus X delivers us into a post-apocalyptic realm that feels hauntingly real.””
“Sometimes an author’s imagination dovetails so perfectly, and unexpectedly, with the outside world that the prescience seems almost chilling. Such is the case with Girl Minus X (Wolsak & Wynn) by Anne Stone, a brilliant and absorbing story of a world consumed by a mysterious virus.””