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Ally Condie, Reached (Dutton, 2012), third book of the Matched Trilogy [Matched, Crossed, Reached].

Series summary: "In search of a better life, Cassia joins a widespread rebellion against Society, where she is tasked with finding a cure to the threat of survival and must choose between Xander and Ky." — provided by publisher

Homer's Odysseus epically explains that Sisyphus is punished, emphasizing the boulder's return to the plain: "autis epeita pedonde kulindeto läas anaides." Subsequently classical authors explain variously why Sisyphus was punished: "When Zeus secretly carried off Aegina, the daughter of Asopus, Sisyphus is said to have revealed Zeus' crime to Asopus, who was looking for her." (Simpson, trans. Apoll. Bibl. 1.9.3; Other ancient authors attribute the punishment to Sisyphus' deception of his brother Salmoneus. Lost tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides tell that Sisyphus outwitted Death for a time but later suffered eternal punishment for his overreach.
Albert Camus (1942) set a new benchmark for the Sisyphus myth, explaining that Sisyphus' ordeal defines "the Absurd". But Condie's Sisyphus marks a remarkably innovative adaptation this important myth.

Condie's trilogy is comprised of Matched (2010), Crossed (2011), and Reached (2012), a series praised as "a superb dystopian romance." (The Wall Street Journal)