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Description edit
From the author of the critically acclaimed Elsewhere comes this brilliant novel about an impossible romance, a family living outside of the law, and the ties that forever bind us.
Chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is increasingly scarce, and New York City is... read more
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Characters edit
- Anya "Annie" Balanchine: 16-year-old daughter of a deceased major crime boss in future New York City, sister of Leo and Natty, is the 'mother figure' of the household
- Goodwin "Win" Delacroix: Friend of Anya, and future boyfriend of hers, son of District Attorney
- Scarlet Barber: Annie's best friend, known in school as the weird drama girl, is always there for Annie
- Nataliya "Natty" Balachine: Annie's little sister, very romantic personality, is very close to Anya and Leo, has nightmares often
- Leonyd "Leo" Balanchine: Annie's big brother who was left mentally debilitated in a car accident when he was younger.
- Mr. Kipling: Annie's family lawyer, very close to the family
- Simon Green: 27-year-old associate of Mr. Kipling's (lawyer)
- Gable Arsley: Annie's ex-boyfriend, not a nice guy...worthy of his name. Ate contaminated chocolate; near death experience.
- Imogen Goodfellow: Nana's nurse, helps out Anya in many different ways
- Galina Balanchine: Annie, Leo, and Natty's grandmother; she is very old and very sick and kept alive by machines, but very wise
- Jakov "Jacks" Pirozhki: illegitimate cousin; very low in the hierarchy of the crime family. Name pronounced "Yackoff"
- Mrs. Cobrawick: Headmaster at Liberty Children's Facility
- Mouse: mute girl in the Liberty Children's Facility. Believes she deserves to be there and bullied.
Quotes edit
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“Life really had taught me that smart people anticipated the worst. That way, there was time to make a plan.”
Anya "Annie" Balanchine -
“Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for consequences.”
Anya "Annie" Balanchine -
“It seemed excessive to commit two violent acts with pasta in the same day.”
Anya "Annie" Balanchine -
“This is nothing. Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road.”
Anya "Annie" Balanchine:
First Sentence edit
The night before my junior year- I was sixteen, barely- Gable Arsley said he wanted to sleep with me.
Table of Contents edit
1. I Defend My Own Honor
2. I Am Punished; Define Recidivism; Tend to Family Matters
3. I Confess; Contemplate Mortality & Teeth; Lure a Boy Under False Pretenses; Disappoint My Brother
4. I Go to Little Egypt
5. I Regret Having Gone to Little Egypt
6. I Entertain Two Unwelcome Guests; Am Mistaken for Someone Else
7. I Am Accused; Make Matters Worse
8. I Am Sent to Liberty; Am Also, Tattooed!
9. I Discover an Influential Friend & Then, A Foe
10. I Convalesce; Receive Visitors; Hear News of Gabe Arsley
11. I Define Tragedy For Scarlet
12. I Relent; Make an Adequate Witch
13. I Tend to an Obligation (Ignore Others); Pose for a Picture
14. I Am Forced to Turn the Other Cheek
15. We Mourn Again; I Learn the Definition of Internecine
16. I Apologize (Repeatedly); Am Apologized to (Once)
17. I Make Plans for the Summer
18. I Am Betrayed
19. I Enact a Fair Trade
20. I Set My House in Order; Am Returned to Liberty
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 2 in Birthright. (standard series)
Followed by Because It Is My Blood.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Gabrielle Zevin (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Country: USA
Publication Date: September 6, 2011
ISBN: 978-0374302108
Page Count: 368
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Country: USA
Publication Date: September 6, 2011
ISBN: 978-0374302108
Page Count: 368
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