Hard to put down! Good for fans of The Hunger Games, Uglies, Divergent, The Giver, and other dystopian fiction. Ripe for discussion. Probably the most interesting thing to me as a librarian and lover of the arts was the Hundred Songs, Hundred Paintings, Hundred Poems, etc: "How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?" 
 Favorite quotes: 
 "'You were ready to jump,' he says. 'You just weren't sure of it yet.'" 
 [upon the death of the second parent] "After today, he will be no one's child." 
 "...all my family has ever done is sort. Never create." 
 "If I couldn't name it, would I even know what it is? Would I even feel it at all?" 
 "Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?" 
 "'I think it's because when we hear it we know we're not the only ones who ever felt this way.'" 
 "...they are giving us pieces of a real life instead of the whole thing. And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing." 
 "Did the poet know how lucky he was, to have such beautiful words and a place to put them and keep them?" 
 "They control the food; they control us. Some people know how to grow food, some know how to harvest it, some know how to process it; others know how to cook it. But none of us know how to do all of it. We could never survive on our own." 
 "'So I have to wish for the end of the world as I know it?'...'Not the end of the world. For the beginning of a better one.'" 
 "This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal."