In this Philip K. Dick Honor–winning series, one girl’s unknowable destiny depends on a bold brand-new step in human evolution.

In the wake from the apocalypse, Flora has come of age in an extremely gendered post-plague society where females have grown to be a precious, coveted, hunted, and endangered commodity. But Flora will not participate in the overall economy that investments in bodies. An anathema in a world that prizes procreation most of all, she actually is an outsider all over the place she goes, like the thriving all-female town of Shy.

Today navigating a blighted panorama, Flora, her friends, and a sullen young slave she adopts as her own kid leave their oppressive pasts behind to find their place in the globe. They look for refuge aboard a dispatch where gender is fluid, where in fact the dynamic can be uneasy, and where gossips flow of the bold brand-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.