Children’s Books: All Good Children by Catherine Austen

Sunday, November 27, 2011
In Catherine Austen’s new novel we spend a lot of time breaking out of dystopia. The story harkens back to the very best elements of Ira Levin’s 1975 novel (later made into a couple of astonishingly bad movies) Stepford Wives.At the center of the 21st century, select children of the well-behaved city of New Middletown line up and take their medicine. The treatment turns them into the