Author Event: Saturday, August 17, 2019 from 11am to 2pm

Please join us on Saturday, August 17, 2019 from 11am to 2pm for Ration by Cody Luff.

In a world where even paper must be reused until it falls apart, the 

most valuable commodity becomes flesh.

All the girls who live in the Apartments are forced to weigh their own 

hunger against the lives of their neighbors. When Cynthia is wrongly 

accused of ordering an “A” ration, a high-calorie meal made from the 

body of one of her friends, she is punished with brutality at the hands of 

the other girls and exile from the only home she’s ever known. It’s a death 

sentence—one that Elisabet Tuttle, headmistress of Cynthia’s Apartments, 

hopes will encourage the other girls to keep in line. But as Elisabet loses 

her grip on the Apartments and her own comfort as an agent in the girls’ 

murders, she grapples with an overseeing council that grows more and 

more impatient with her mistakes.

Inside the Apartments, madness reigns: the needs of the society dominate 

the needs of the individual, and Elisabet must sacrifice everything to 

find autonomy. Outside, Cynthia finds a world ravaged by scarcity and 

an unlikely ally in one of the Women who tormented her for years. 

Motivated not by self-preservation but by revenge, Cynthia will stop 

at nothing to grant justice to the girls in the Apartments. Set in the far 

future, Ration is an unflinching take on the ways society can harm the 

very people it seeks to protect.

In a world where even paper must be reused until it falls apart, the most valuable commodity becomes flesh.All the girls who live in the Apartments are forced to weigh their own hunger against the lives of their neighbors. When Cynthia is wrongly accused of ordering an “A” ration, a high-calorie meal made from the body of one of her friends, she is punished with brutality at the hands of the other girls and exile from the only home she’s ever known. It’s a death sentence—one that Elisabet Tuttle, headmistress of Cynthia’s Apartments, hopes will encourage the other girls to keep in line. But as Elisabet loses her grip on the Apartments and her own comfort as an agent in the girls’ murders, she grapples with an overseeing council that grows more and more impatient with her mistakes.Inside the Apartments, madness reigns: the needs of the society dominate the needs of the individual, and Elisabet must sacrifice everything to find autonomy. Outside, Cynthia finds a world ravaged by scarcity and an unlikely ally in one of the Women who tormented her for years. Motivated not by self-preservation but by revenge, Cynthia will stop at nothing to grant justice to the girls in the Apartments. Set in the far future, Ration is an unflinching take on the ways society can harm the very people it seeks to protect.