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Birthmarked by Caragh M. O'Brien6/12/2023 She learns that the Enclave take the babies from the population of people living outside the walls to keep their population stable and diversify genetics. Gaia learns from the captain of the guards – Captain Grey – that the population inside the Enclave is diminishing due to more mothers being barren. Many mothers still resist, however, and their babies must be taken away by force.Ĭlick here to see the rest of this review Most mothers willingly give their babies, hoping that their children will grow up in happier conditions. The babies will apparently be given the privilege of being adopted by well to-do citizens of the Enclave. In exchange for food and medical supplies, those who live on the outside must give up the first three newborn babies they give birth to each month. Outside the Enclave, where Gaia lives, the world is a dry and barren wasteland. The Enclave is a place where food is plentiful and everyone lives in comfort. Gaia Stone is a young girl with burn-scars disfiguring her face, who has to perform the duties of a midwife for the people who live outside the Enclave. In order to free her parents from the government that runs the walled compound called the Enclave, Gaia cracks a code her parents left her, a code that reveals the real parents of all the babies forcefully adopted from outside the Enclave to diversify the genetics of their population.
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