Pure/Julianna Baggott/434 pgs

This is one of the better dystopian novels I have read. After the Detonation there are those who live in the Dome (the Pures) and those less fortunate who live outside the Dome and try to survive despite their deformities.  Partridge, a Pure, decides to escape the Dome in order to find his mother, who he believes is still alive. In the process he meets Pressia, a survivor whose main deformity is a doll's head fused to her wrist in place of the hand she "lost" as a result of the Detonation. This is also Bradford, El Capitan,  and Lyda's stories. It has shades of the aftermath of Hiroshima, genetic engineering, etc. It's totally engrossing, and the first in a projected trilogy. Really good!