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I have read that book. It's actually a spin off of the Captain of the ship she ends up marrying. It was about the Captain who was raised in a complete dystopia ruled by a government/corporation named the UET. Now if only I could remember the name of the series or author.
Sounds like something by either Andre Norton, Anne Mc Caffrey (I'm probably confusing it with her Planet Pirates series), Robert Heinlein, or Poul Anderson. I'll check the science fiction section the next time I go to Mc Kay's Used Books in Knoxville.
Young Rissa, first in the Rissa Kerguelen series by F.M. Busby.
Awesome, that's it. Thanks!
In the 80s I read a science fiction book about an orphaned girl (I think her parents were killed at the beginning, perhaps for being political dissidents). She and her brother go to an orphanage. Her brother is rebellious and keeps getting into trouble. She wins some kind of state lottery and is freed from the orphanage. She goes to free her brother, but he has been brainwashed (or perhaps lobotomized?). She may then use her lottery winnings to buy a spaceship? I think the title of the book was "Young XXXX", where XXXX is the girls name (and I think it was two syllables), and it may have been the beginning of a trilogy.