TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reid, Ava,
TI  - Fable for the End of the World
SN  - 9780063211551
AV  - PZ 
U1  - FIC 
PY  - 2025///
CY  - [Place of publication not identified]
PB  - Harpercollins Childrens Books
KW  - Survival
KW  - Dystopias
KW  - Assassination
KW  - Romance stories
KW  - Sexual minority youth
KW  - LGBTQ+ people
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Debt
KW  - Siblings
KW  - Dystopian fiction
KW  - local
KW  - Queer fiction
KW  - Young adult fiction
KW  - tlcgt
N1  - new ya book 2025
N2  - "By encouraging massive accumulations of debt from its underclass, a single corporation, Caerus, controls all aspects of society. Inesa lives with her brother in a half-sunken town where they scrape by running a taxidermy shop. Unbeknownst to Inesa, their cruel and indolent mother has accrued an enormous debt--enough to qualify one of her children for Caerus's livestreamed assassination spectacle: the Lamb's Gauntlet. ... When Inesa learns that her mother has offered her as a sacrifice, at first she despairs--the Gauntlet is always a bloodbath for the impoverished debtors. But she's had years of practice surviving in the apocalyptic wastes, and with the help of her hunter brother she might stand a chance of staying alive"--
ER  -