num_pages: 332
description: In this Philip K. Dick Awardwinning series one womans 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 humanitys future tears Floras makeshift family asunder she must choose: protect the safe haven shes built or risk everything to defy oppression whatever its provenance.
language: English
title: The Book of Flora
publisher: 47North