If you could choose a world without loneliness, without shame, grief, misery, or feeling of any kind, would you, if it also meant that you lost the simple pleasure of a picnic on a sunny day or the joy of falling in love? Would the allure of a comfortable numbness prove too tempting to resist? Could you choose between feeling pain and not feeling anything, ever again? A girl is caught in a world where this choice is fiercely contested. In the cross-fire between the Red and White empires, the feeling and the unfeeling, each bent on the other's destruction, the girl must choose between emotion and oblivion, joining the ranks with the Reds as they fight to resist the Whites, but all the while struggling with her own desperate ambivalence. All That Is Red is a story of survival and a journey through the human condition, revealing how the intimate euphoria of pain can sometimes be all we have to remind us that we are alive. Anna Caltabiano is fifteen years old. She was born in British colonial Hong Kong to a Japanese mother and an Italian-American father, before moving to Palo Alto, California; the mecca of futurism. Her writing explores and exposes an adolescent dystopia in which accepted traditions, religions, cultures and communities have been eroded, resulting in a lost generation consumed by social apathy and self-loathing which has found solace through electronic connections. Unsettling, engaging and surprisingly erudite, All That Is Red is a remarkably assured debut from an ascending literary star.
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25 Mar 2013
By Harry M. Rehm
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All That Is Red was amazing book. It really changed the way I think about emotions and feelings. It said somethings about emotions that I never thought about. It even changed the way I look at people. When I bought this book I was like okay its another book to read. Now im really glad i read it and will read it probably a billion more times.
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By Julie Kunstler
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All That Is Red offers compassionate insight into a dark and shameful topic that crosses the mind of most teenagers, especially girls.
Ms. Caltabiano develops the main character without pop-psychology and flip-responses. She delves into the meaning of life and emotions, the essence of human beings and love.
All That Is Red captures the reader's attention and keeps the reader's attention throughout the plot's twists and turns.
I rate this book as a must read for parents, teenagers and grandparents.
Ms. Caltabiano develops the main character without pop-psychology and flip-responses. She delves into the meaning of life and emotions, the essence of human beings and love.
All That Is Red captures the reader's attention and keeps the reader's attention throughout the plot's twists and turns.
I rate this book as a must read for parents, teenagers and grandparents.
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24 Sep 2012
By R. Daniels
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This book is intriguing from the start. It is written as an allegory, but along the way provides glimpses into someone's real life experiences. After being moved by the story as I finished it, I felt compelled to re-read it - just to again examine the details in how the story unfolded that now held more meaning to me. Well written indeed! Kudos to Ms. Caltabiano!
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