num_pages: 160
description: Catherynne M. Valente the bestselling and award-winning creator of Space Opera and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland returns with The Past is Red the enchanting dark funny angry story of a girl who made two terrible mistakes: she told the truth and she dared to love the world.The future is blue. Endless blue...except for a few small places that float across the hot drowned world left behind by long-gone fossil fuel-guzzlers. One of those patches is a magical place called Garbagetown.Tetley Abednego is the most beloved girl in Garbagetown but she's the only one who knows it. She's the only one who knows a lot of things: that Garbagetown is the most wonderful place in the world that it's full of hope that you can love someone and 66% hate them all at the same time.But Earth is a terrible mess hope is a fragile thing and a lot of people are very angry with her. Then Tetley discovers a new friend a terrible secret and more to her world than she ever expected.
language: English
title: The Past Is Red
publisher: Tordotcom