<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>This is a story about how people with disabilities struggle to fit in and a gruesome satire about how people with no disabilities perceive them. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>A Dystopian Novel in the Footsteps Of Margaret Atwood's <em>The Handmaiden's Tale</em>, Stephen King's The Long Walk</em>, And George Orwell's <em>1984.</em> </p><p><br></p><p>Michael Poole, a seventeen-year-old deaf ward of the Gate, wants a few things. A girlfriend. A chance to play hockey. Good times. But the blockheads, and the Watchers have other plans for him. Like not leaving the Gate. Not causing trouble. And to remain still and calmly wait for the day of his own taking.. </p><p><br></p><p>The story explores a malevolent world in different ways. In dialogues spoken in English with smatters of Spanish and Spanglish. In signed pidgins like Signed Exact English. In signs like American Sign Language. In few riddles and symbolic drawings. In streams of consciousness of Michael Poole's mind. Only to discover the final policy for the wards of the Gate, never welcomed by the general population of a perfect world. </p><p><br></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p></p><p>Apr 05, 2009</p><p><strong>Brian</strong> rated it really liked it</p><p> - review of another edition</p><p>Shelves: read-2009</p><p>Intense... just pure concentrated intensity. When I read The Road sometime ago my only comment about it was I thought it too dark and gloomy from page one to the last. <em>Gather the Weeds</em> makes <em>The Road</em> seem like a happy little fairy tale with cute bunnies hopping among the daisies while sunbeams twinkle in the crystal air... really.</p><p><br></p><p>The weeds are the less fortunate among us... the physically or mentally impaired. The world is a garden. Weeds don't belong in a garden. They're kept in a place called the Gate. The story is about the Gate, the people who are imprisoned there, and the <em>flowers</em>, healthy young men called Whysees, who look after the weeds... like a gardener would do with a fresh batch of <em>Roundup</em> weed killer.</p><p><br></p><p>It is horror. Not the supernatural-spirit-gonna-possess-you kind of horror. It isn't the fleshy, scaly, or furry bloody monster kind of horror. It's human horror. It takes place in an another time, possibly a future where the populous elected the wrong people to run the future. Or, the populous just got infected with some bug that resulted in a major moral and conscience deficiency. Who the hell knows?</p><p><br></p><p>This is a book that will haunt me for a while. It's a book that taught me a little about what it might be like to be deaf. Actually, from what I previously knew, this book taught me a lot about what it might be like to be deaf.</p><p><br></p><p>This is the author's first novel. It won't be his last. That makes me happy.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><br>
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