When She Woke by Hillary Jordan

September 4, 2014 by Christina

Fiction — audiobook. Read by Heather Corrigan. HighBridge Audio, 2011. 10 hours, 42 minutes. Library copy. In this imaginative retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hannah Payne awakens to find her skin is now the red — the color of blood. She is a convicted criminal sentenced by the State of Texas, who criminalized abortion as murder, to be “chromed”, and her skin color has been genetically modified to broadcast to the world her crime. Hannah devoted her life […]

Categories: 2014 Reads, Audiobook, Dystopia, Fiction, North America, Science Fiction, United States • Tags: Heather Corrigan, Hillary Jordan