The Book of Flora

In this Philip K. Dick Award-winning series, one woman's unknowable destiny depends on a bold new step in human evolution.

In the wake of the apocalypse, Flora has come of age in a highly gendered post-plague society where females have become a precious, coveted, hunted, and endangered commodity. But Flora does not participate in the economy that trades in bodies. An anathema in a world that prizes procreation above all else, she is an outsider everywhere she goes, including the thriving all-female city of Shy.

Now navigating a blighted landscape, Flora, her friends, and a sullen young slave she adopts as her own child leave their oppressive pasts behind to find their place in the world. They seek refuge aboard a ship where gender is fluid, where the dynamic is uneasy, and where rumors flow of a bold new reproductive strategy.

When the promise of a miraculous hope for humanity's future tears Flora's makeshift family asunder, she must choose: protect the safe haven she's built or risk everything to defy oppression, whatever its provenance.

Publisher: 47north
Published: 04/23/2019
Pages: 332
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781542042093


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/14/2019
Foreword 02/26/2019
Booklist 03/01/2019 pg. 33
Library Journal 03/01/2019 pg. 101
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2019

About the Author
Elison, Meg: -

Meg Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. She is the author of The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, winner of the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award, and The Book of Etta. The Book of Flora is the third novel in the Road to Nowhere trilogy. The author lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and writes like she's running out of time. For more information, visit www.megelison.com.