{"id":1685,"date":"2013-02-19T21:06:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T21:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2015-04-04T19:34:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T19:34:08","slug":"son-by-lois-lowry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1685","title":{"rendered":"Son by Lois Lowry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Son\"<\/p>\n

When I read The Giver<\/em>, Gathering Blue<\/em>, and Messenger<\/em>, I thought it was a trilogy.\u00a0\u00a0I had thought the story to be pretty well wrapped up at the end of Messenger<\/em>, to be honest.\u00a0 I was more than happy, nevertheless, to find out I was wrong.\u00a0 Not only am I a big fan of Lois Lowry, but I have a major weakness for dystopias!<\/p>\n

This story begins in the same society as The Giver<\/em>, but Jonah is not the main character.\u00a0 Instead, we see the society through the eyes of a young girl named Clair.\u00a0 We are with Clair as she gets her work assignment \u2014 to be a birthmother \u2014 and also when the delivery of the \u201cproduct\u201d she was carrying goes wrong and results in a Caesarean.\u00a0 Although she is made to wear a mask and can\u2019t see the baby, she manages to find out that her baby, #36, was a boy.\u00a0 A son.\u00a0 Her love and longing for her son is unheard of in that society, so she has to pretend not to think about him and can never admit that she dreams about being able to raise him as her own.\u00a0 I can\u2019t say much more without major spoilers, but rest assured that this tale will reunite characters from all of the books in the series while demonstrating the lengths to which a mother will go for her child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I read The Giver, Gathering Blue, and Messenger, I thought it was a trilogy.\u00a0\u00a0I had thought the story to be pretty well wrapped up at the end of Messenger, to be honest.\u00a0 I was more than happy, nevertheless, to find out I was wrong.\u00a0 Not only am I a big fan of Lois Lowry, … Continue reading Son by Lois Lowry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}