The Kindle version of this title features discussion questions at the end of the book that are suitable for book clubs and classrooms.
It's the worst time in the nation's history of reproductive legislation for someone like Katherine, who doesn't want a child, to learn she's pregnant. The ratification of the pro-creation Citizen Amendment has not only criminalized the birth control that would have prevented Katherine's accidental pregnancy, but abortion and most miscarriages are illegal, too.
In this environment, not having a child will be a challenge.
Katherine isn't afraid of a challenge.
29 years later...
It's probably the worst possible time in the nation's history of reproductive legislation for Millie – well, for someone like Millie – to decide rather suddenly that she wants to be pregnant.
Since the recent implementation of parent licensing, getting pregnant requires government approval, and even attempting to cheat the system carries a sentence of imprisonment in a mysterious facility known as Exile.
In this environment, a pregnancy for someone like Millie is all but impossible.
Millie doesn't believe in "impossible."
**
Review
"What makes the story compelling is how Tsetsi leads us through this world first through a mother, and then through her daughter so that we see how they struggle to live with themselves and each other within the confines of their world. When we are through, we are thinking hard about things we've heard many say and things we've thought or said ourselves about children or parenting. [ The Age of the Child ] tempts us into a conversation that we've not had with spouses, friends, or acquaintances. " Elizabeth Marro, author of *Casualties*
"A masterstroke in the dystopian revival, The Age of the Child is visionary, relevant, and unnervingly plausible." Brian Felsen, founder of BookBaby
"As I read The Age of the Child, I kept wondering whether author Kristen Tsetsi might have been channeling George Orwell on LSD. The narrative is so engaging because it is so unsettling, and it is so unsettling because there is a clear path to reality for the future she has created. Tsetsi tells a story that will keep you reading and wondering late into the night." James C. Moore, MSNBC political commentator and co-author of the NYT best-selling *Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential*
"Kristen Tsetsi has done the most frightening thing any artist can do by taking a current threat to human rights and following it to a logical conclusion. What makes The Age of the Child stand out is Tsetsi's illumination of how the fictional pro-life movement ultimately causes a complete devaluing of life through its stance. The Age of the Child packages important social commentary in a moving story." Readers' Favorite
About the Author
Kristen Tsetsi is the author of the novels The Age of the Child, Pretty Much True , and, under the name Chris Jane, The Year of Dan Palace. She's been a cab driver, an adjunct English professor, a reporter and columnist at a daily newspaper, a senior editor and assistant writer to a ghostwriter, an instructor of expressive writing, play writing, and screenwriting, and editor of the literary journal American Fiction (New Rivers Press). She lives in Connecticut with one husband, three cats, and one dog.
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The Kindle version of this title features discussion questions at the end of the book that are suitable for book clubs and classrooms.
It's the worst time in the nation's history of reproductive legislation for someone like Katherine, who doesn't want a child, to learn she's pregnant. The ratification of the pro-creation Citizen Amendment has not only criminalized the birth control that would have prevented Katherine's accidental pregnancy, but abortion and most miscarriages are illegal, too.
In this environment, not having a child will be a challenge.
Katherine isn't afraid of a challenge.
29 years later...
It's probably the worst possible time in the nation's history of reproductive legislation for Millie – well, for someone like Millie – to decide rather suddenly that she wants to be pregnant.
Since the recent implementation of parent licensing, getting pregnant requires government approval, and even attempting to cheat the system carries a sentence of imprisonment in a mysterious facility known as Exile.
In this environment, a pregnancy for someone like Millie is all but impossible.
Millie doesn't believe in "impossible." **
Review
"What makes the story compelling is how Tsetsi leads us through this world first through a mother, and then through her daughter so that we see how they struggle to live with themselves and each other within the confines of their world. When we are through, we are thinking hard about things we've heard many say and things we've thought or said ourselves about children or parenting. [ The Age of the Child ] tempts us into a conversation that we've not had with spouses, friends, or acquaintances. " Elizabeth Marro, author of *Casualties*
"A masterstroke in the dystopian revival, The Age of the Child is visionary, relevant, and unnervingly plausible." Brian Felsen, founder of BookBaby
"As I read The Age of the Child, I kept wondering whether author Kristen Tsetsi might have been channeling George Orwell on LSD. The narrative is so engaging because it is so unsettling, and it is so unsettling because there is a clear path to reality for the future she has created. Tsetsi tells a story that will keep you reading and wondering late into the night." James C. Moore, MSNBC political commentator and co-author of the NYT best-selling *Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential*
"Kristen Tsetsi has done the most frightening thing any artist can do by taking a current threat to human rights and following it to a logical conclusion. What makes The Age of the Child stand out is Tsetsi's illumination of how the fictional pro-life movement ultimately causes a complete devaluing of life through its stance. The Age of the Child packages important social commentary in a moving story." Readers' Favorite
About the Author
Kristen Tsetsi is the author of the novels The Age of the Child, Pretty Much True , and, under the name Chris Jane, The Year of Dan Palace. She's been a cab driver, an adjunct English professor, a reporter and columnist at a daily newspaper, a senior editor and assistant writer to a ghostwriter, an instructor of expressive writing, play writing, and screenwriting, and editor of the literary journal American Fiction (New Rivers Press). She lives in Connecticut with one husband, three cats, and one dog.