The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 and Philip K. Dick Award Winner When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead. In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth’s population—killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant—the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power—and the strong who possess it. A few women like her survived, though they are scarce. Even fewer are safe from the clans of men, who, driven by fear, seek to control those remaining. To preserve her freedom, she dons men’s clothing, goes by false names, and avoids as many people as possible. But as the world continues to grapple with its terrible circumstances, she’ll discover a role greater than chasing a pale imitation of independence. After all, if humanity is to be reborn, someone must be its guide.

“The science fiction analog to the Zika crisis” —Slate “As her debut novel, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife captures the spirit of Elison’s artistry. The human capacity to survive is something authors have explored for as long as science fiction has existed as a genre, but Elison brings to it her own definitions of sexuality, resourcefulness, and determination.” —The Daily Californian “Elison paints a world so empty of long-term hope and driven by short-term desperation that you’ll be haunted by it even when not flipping the pages, yet the barest glimmer of light on the future’s horizon will keep you moving forward.” —Adrian Liang, Amazon Book Review “Meg Elison’s exploration of femininity and women’s inequality is unflinchingly honest. She doesn’t hold back when considering the differences between men and women, those that naturally exist and those that are constructed. Particularly, I appreciated Elison’s ability to examine the ways in which women are treated when the laws that protect them are gone. In other words, Elison shows that it wouldn’t take much for society to regress. That the progress we’ve made is an illusion unless people enforce it themselves.” —Word After Word “Elison’s future where men outnumber women ten to one or more is brutal and frightening, mostly because it exposes how thin [a] veneer of personhood women have now.” —Book Riot “The Road to Nowhere trilogy asks big questions about a world that’s more possible than we might imagine, and it’s a radically queer treatise on the future of sex.” —LitReactor

Meg Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. Her debut novel, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, won the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and writes like she’s running out of time.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781503939110
ISBN 10	1503939111
Title	The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
Author	Meg Elison
Series	The Road To Nowhere
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Amazon Publishing
Year published	2016-10-11
Number of pages	300
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.