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Son

Lois Lowry

Book 4 of The Giver Quartet

405 pages

About this book

Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby and sets out to find him when he is removed from the community.

Themes
HeartbreakingHeartfelt & EmotionalThought-ProvokingMysteriousThrilling & PropulsiveMaternal instinct vs. societal dutyThe cost of enforced detachmentDefying a perfect system
The Giver Quartet
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