6/20/2023 0 Comments Blue ticket sophie mackintosh![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While there are, very loosely, some echoes of dystopian novels centred on the female experience, such as The Handmaid’s Tale, what I found intriguing about this story was how the girls are given their ticket and then sent forth into unknown territories to literally fend for themselves and build this imposed life independently. However, Calla cannot quench the belief that the ticketing system was wrong, and that the wrong life has been handed to her, so she takes matters into her own hands to reclaim the life she believes is hers. In the unspecified country where our narrator Calla lives, at the time of a girl’s first bleed, they come forward in an uncomfortably formal and sterile ritual to pull a ticket that will tell them which direction their life will take: a white ticket means they can (and are expected to) have children, while blue means they cannot, a restriction which is enforced by an imposed procedure. ![]() In a world where a key element of a woman’s fate is decided by a crude, ticketed lottery system, Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh is the story of one woman’s rebellion against this imposed destiny, compelled by a dark and powerful driving force within her. ![]()
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