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The Road to Nowhere Series

This dystopian saga unfolds in a world ravaged by apocalypse, where survivors grapple with a harsh reality after the collapse of civilization. The series delves into the darker aspects of human nature and the fragility of social order, particularly in the context of a dwindling male population and the oppression of women. It follows characters striving to find meaning and hope amidst violence and despair, posing unsettling questions about humanity's future and gender dynamics.

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
The Book of Flora
The Book of Etta

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  1. 1

    The Book of the Unnamed Midwife

    • 300 pages
    • 11 hours of reading
    4.2(13336)Add rating

    "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"--Back cover.

    The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
  2. 2

    The Book of Etta

    • 314 pages
    • 11 hours of reading
    3.8(4042)Add rating

    Etta comes from Nowhere, a village of survivors of the great plague that wiped away the world that was. In the world that is, women are scarce and childbearing is dangerousyet desperately necessary for humankinds future. Mothers and midwives are sacred, but Etta has a different calling. As a scavenger. Loyal to the village but living on her own terms, Etta roams the desolate territory beyond: salvaging useful relics of the ruined past and braving the threat of brutal slave traders, who are seeking women and girls to sell and subjugate.

    The Book of Etta
  3. 3

    The Book of Flora

    • 332 pages
    • 12 hours of reading
    3.6(119)Add rating

    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.

    The Book of Flora