The Giver
In a painless, colorless utopia, a boy chosen to hold his society's memories discovers the cost of its perfect order.
Jonas lives in a community without pain, hunger, or choice, until he is selected as Receiver of Memory and begins taking on the recollections his society has surrendered: colour, music, love, and suffering. Lois Lowry’s Newbery-winning novel is a spare, unsettling parable about the price of a frictionless world. Taylor Swift read it in fifth grade and has said it blew her mind and changed her perspective; she later played Rosemary in the film adaptation.
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Taylor Swift
When I read the book, it was one of those things that really changed my perspective.
Interview · August 2014
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