Tricia Sullivan

'The gun straps to the inside of my leg with Velcro. It's not the absolute zenith of fashion to do this anymore, but girls who wear theirs with leather straps and buckles aren't serious: with Velcro you can get at the thing when you need it. I also have a pink ammo belt. It's heavy, but who said fashion was easy?' In a mall like any other, a gang of teenage girls are suddenly caught up in a maelstrom of shopping and violence. But - as the designer bullets fly - it is not only their own lives they are fighting for. Unknown to them they are battling for the life of a man trapped in another place, in a different world, and with very different enemies. He is a man they have never met, but who represents the future of the human race ...or could destroy it.

When Cassidy Walker stumbles into the middle of the highway, bloodied and bruised, Bard college in flames behind her, and manages to flag down a ride, she thinks the worst is over. Arriving in the nearby town of Red Hook, Cassidy tries to call her parents but the phone lines are down - no radio or television signals are being received either. The town, it seems, is cut off from the rest of the world. But that's not the strangest thing. Not by a long shot. Nobody in Red Hook has even heard of Bard College. Furthermore, they claim that Cassidy is not a music student, but a hand at the local stable. And she has lived in a house she can't remember, with people she barely knows, for over a year. The world is fracturing. Cassidy just knows it - just as she knows that she is responsible. As Cassidy undertakes the ultimate road trip, through bubbles of reality, she will find that everything she thinks she knows about herself is wrong. Is she losing her mind or is the world a far more complex place than she thought?

En un centro comercial, una pandilla de chicas adolescentes se ve envuelta en un torbellino de violencia y compras. No solo han de luchar por su vida, sino también por la de un hombre atrapado en otro mundo, que tiene unos enemigos muy diferentes; un hombre al que no conocen, pero que puede cambiar el futuro de la raza humana. Una historia relatada en un estilo vigoroso, condimentado con toques de postmodernismo y realismo mágico que le confieren el encanto de lo distinto. Tricia Sullivan nos brinda una visión inteligente de un futuro enloquecido, donde la lucha por la supervivencia se entreteje con la guerra de los sexos y la lucha contra la extinción de la humanidad. El centro es una novela bien planteada y mejor escrita que mira con fuerza la política sexual y hace callar muchas bocas.