The first chapter of Shatter Me, the highly anticipated, debut novel from Tahereh Mafi is available to read.
The Official Facebook page for Shatter Me has the first chapter available to read as well as a giveaway and an exclusive event happening on Oct 22nd.
Excerpt:
I’ve been locked up for 264 days.I have nothing but a small notebook and a broken penand the numbers in my head to keep me company. 1 window.4 walls. 144 square feet of space. 26 letters in an alphabetI haven’t spoken in 264 days of isolation.6,336 hours since I’ve touched another human being.“You’re getting a cellmate roommate,” they said to me.“We hope you rot to death in this place For good behavior,”they said to me.“Another psycho just like you No more isolation,” theysaid to me. They are the minions of The Reestablishment. The ini-tiative that was supposed to help our dying society. Thesame people who pulled me out of my parents’ home andlocked me in an asylum for something outside of my con-trol. No one cares that I didn’t know what I was capable of. That I didn’t know what I was doing.I have no idea where I am.I only know that I was transported by someone in awhite van who drove 6 hours and 37 minutes to get mehere. I know I was handcuffed to my seat. I know I wasstrapped to my chair. I know my parents never bothered to
say good-bye. I know I didn’t cry as I was taken away.I know the sky falls down every day. The sun drops into the ocean and splashes browns and reds and yellows and oranges into the world outside my window. A million leaves from a hundred different branches dip in the wind, fluttering with the false promise of flight. The gust catches their withered wings only to force them downward, forgotten, left to be trampled by the soldiers stationed just below. [MORE]
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