A review by lexiww
Searching for Sky by Jillian Cantor

3.0

A boat arrives at the remote island on which Sky and River have spent the majority of their lives. They can’t recall ever living in California, where the men who’ve come to “rescue” them are from. But now that their parents are dead, River and Sky follow the men to the unfamiliar world for the sake of their survival. Once in California, a media frenzy descends on the pair as they’re thrust into a scary new world wholly unlike the place where they grew up. Meanwhile, they learn terrifying family secrets and their relationships, old and new, are transformed in uncomfortable, shocking ways. Sky is left bereft and bewildered. “Now I am a girl without a place,” the 16-year-old laments. In this “reverse dystopian” novel, Cantor (Margot, 2013) skillfully invites the reader to see our world and all its shortcomings and idiosyncrasies through Sky’s questioning gaze. Readers will be captivated as Sky struggles to navigate her new universe, one that we know intimately but may never look at the same way again. — Lexi Walters Wright, First published May 1, 2014 (Booklist).