The Sunlight Pilgrims

"In the very near future, amid the worst winter in recorded history, civilization has begun to freeze solid. Stella is a 12-year-old transgender girl living in a trailer park in Scotland; her mother, Constance, refurbishes thrift-store finds to get by. Armed with this rich premise, Jenni Fagan succeeds in turning her sophomore novel, The Sunlight Pilgrims, into a vision of the apocalypse that’s witty, scathingly sweet and filled with tragic beauty — and one that stares unflinchingly at the sometimes horrifying, sometimes liberating power of change."