(Females have no say in the matter.) Mary thinks her chances of finding happiness (not to mention the ocean) are gone forever. The object of her feelings is already spoken for, however, and then, unexpectedly, a second boy speaks for her. Mary’s brother Jed blames Mary for their mother’s fate, so he refuses to take her in, and thus she is forced to join the Sisterhood. She may live with her family a man may speak for her, court her through the winter and marry her in the spring ceremonies or she may join the Sisterhood.” “In my village an unmarried woman has three choices. And when Mary’s mother is lost to the Unconsecrated, as had happened to her father, Mary’s world becomes even more restricted: The villagers call the world outside the fence “The Forest of Hands and Teeth.” Growing up, Mary’s mother told Mary stories about a wider world, with tall buildings and even an ocean, but no one believes these tales except Mary. Mary is a teenaged girl living in a small village surrounded by high fences to protect the inhabitants from the Unconsecrated, i.e., zombies.
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