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  • The Book of Flora

  • The Road to Nowhere, Book 3
  • Written by: Meg Elison
  • Narrated by: Shakina Nayfack
  • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)

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The Book of Flora

Written by: Meg Elison
Narrated by: Shakina Nayfack
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Publisher's Summary

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.

©2019 by Meg Elison. (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

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Good as a part of the series

I enjoyed the series, I wouldn't recommend this book as a stand alone, it would be hard to make sense of it.

The reader/performer did an excellent job, it was easy to distinguish between the different character voices.

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