“Meg Elison’s exploration of femininity and women’s inequality is unflinchingly honest.
“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 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 “As her debut novel, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife captures the spirit of Elison’s artistry. “The science fiction analog to the Zika crisis.” - Slate "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. But as the world continues to grapple with its terrible circumstances, she’ll discover a role greater than chasing a pale imitation of independence.Īfter all, if humanity is to be reborn, someone must be its guide. To preserve her freedom, she dons men’s clothing, goes by false names, and avoids as many people as possible. Even fewer are safe from the clans of men, who, driven by fear, seek to control those remaining.
All that remains is power-and the strong who possess it.Ī few women like her survived, though they are scarce. 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. When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 and Philip K.
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