![]() ![]() The story starts when an old enemy offers Sonya a deal: If she can find a missing child, she can earn her freedom from the prison she's lived in for years. ![]() The Delegation monitored its citizens through the use of Insight, an ocular implant that tracked a user's words (think a portable and inescapable Big Brother). Her face is an uncomfortable reminder of the Delegation, the surveillance state that had once ruled over the Seattle-Portland area: Sonya was literally a poster girl for the regime's propaganda posters. Instead of watching civil liberties get chipped away, "Poster Girl" charts the process of a society healing - and Sonya Kantor, the book's main character, is the kind of person who stands in the way of that healing. ![]() "'Poster Girl' is about what happens after a dystopian regime falls," Roth told TODAY in an email interview. Her upcoming mystery novel, "Poster Girl," almost falls within the dystopian genre, but not quite - rather than set in a futuristic autocratic society, it's set in the aftermath of a revolution. Veronica Roth, author of the "Divergent" series, made a name for herself writing dystopian novels. ![]()
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