Braintown

Braintown: a YA book with sci-fi elements. The book is set in 2060 and is told from the point of view of Alice Garcia, an iconoclastic teenager who wakes up on her seventeenth birthday, questioning, for the first time, everything about the town she's lived in her entire life: her boy-crazy friends; her teachers' propagandist curriculum; the pressure her parents put on her to both look a certain way and obsess about her looks; the militant generals who make her skin crawl and the feared King Manu, whose laws; machines and followers make the women of Braintown subservient to the patriarchal order. Alice is launched on an amazing journey of self-realization, in which she learns about the transformative role she's destined to play in Braintown, and the truth about her own identity and exceptional abilities.