![]() Sloane is terrified she will be taken next. Sloane remembers her brother Brady’s suicide two years earlier a few weeks before, her friend Lacey was taken by The Program when Lacey’s father called to report her as sick. For Sloane and other children, this seems like a fate worse than a simple suicide. The Program has been devised to prevent suicides as children evince the signs of depression, they are forced into The Program, returning months later as empty shells, their memories largely removed. In this future, teen suicide, which has reached epic proportions, is considered a kind of infection. Sloane struggles with her aversion to interacting with Kendra, but their chat is interrupted as two ‛handlers,’ men in white jackets, enter the classroom and take Kendra away. ![]() ![]() Kendra and Sloane haven’t been close for some time, and Kendra is obviously depressed, looking physically bad and joking about a poison called QuickDeath. ![]() Sloane, a teenager, sits in class talking with Kendra. Exploring a dystopian science fiction premise, Suzanne Young explores the power of memory and love in her young adult novel The Program (2014), which spawned several sequels. ![]()
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