The Book of the Unnamed Midwife

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 and Philip Okay. Dick Award Winner

When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was lifeless.

In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth’s inhabitants—killing ladies and youngsters and making childbirth lethal for the mom and toddler—the midwife should decide her approach via the bones of the world she as soon as knew to seek out her place on this harmful new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that is still is energy—and the sturdy who possess it.

A number of ladies like her survived, although they’re scarce. Even fewer are secure from the clans of males, who, pushed by concern, search to regulate these remaining. To protect her freedom, she dons males’s clothes, goes by false names, and avoids as many individuals as attainable. But as the world continues to grapple with its horrible circumstances, she’ll uncover a task higher than chasing a pale imitation of independence.

After all, if humanity is to be reborn, somebody have to be its information.