Her evenings are filled with drinking and casual sex. "It had been judged that it wasn't for me by someone who knew better than I did." Her days are filled with work and visits to the combative Doctor A, who monitors blue tickets like Calla. "Blue ticket: I was not motherly," Calla thinks. If she manages to avoid the roving packs of boys and men who prowl the woods and roadways, Calla will start her adult life as a "blue ticket." In the city, Calla is outfitted with a copper IUD and expected to contribute to society solely through her position as a chemist in a laboratory. Once her fate is determined, Calla must make her way to a city, alone and on foot. In early puberty, Calla's father takes her to a lottery station, where she chooses a blue ticket from a mysterious machine. A young woman undermines the state-controlled system that determines motherhood to near-disastrous effect in this chilling follow-up to The Water Cure.
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