The Tiger Flu
The Tiger Flu
Description
A stunning novel about a community of parthenogenic women undersiege after the end of the world.
In this visionary novel by Larissa Laiherfirst in sixteen yearsa community of parthenogenic women, sent into exileby patriarchal and corporate Salt Water City, go to war against disease,technology, and an economic system that threatens them with extinction.
Kirilow is adoctor apprentice whose lover, Peristrophe, is a "starfish," a woman who canregenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help her clone sisterswhose organs are failing. When a denizen from Salt Water City suffering from a mysteriousflu comes into their midst, Peristrophe becomes infected and dies, promptingKirilow to travel to Salt Water City, where the flu is now a pandemic, to finda new starfish who will help save her sisters. There, Kirilow meets Kora, agirl-woman desperate to save her family from the epidemic. Kora has everythingKirilow is looking for, except the will to abandon her own family. But beforeKirilow can convince her, both are kidnapped by a mysterious group of men toserve as test subjects for a new technology that can cure the mind of the body.
'After disease and environmental destruction reorder theworld, Larissa Lai's rebel clones and flu-ridden survivors inhabit a futureboth wildly imaginative and shockingly cruel. Blending the surreal andthe entirely possible, The Tiger Flu is majestically compelling. Amust-read.' - Eden Robinson, author of Sonof a Trickster
'Larissa Lai's imagination is both scintillatingand dark, and somewhere in this intersection lies her genius. Orwell said thatwriting a dystopian novel, such as 1984, was like surviving a longillness. Reading The Tiger Flu - Lai's 2145 and onward - is itself afever dream, a shivering premonition, a familiar and strange future. This isthe sort of fiction we will all need to contract if we are to find a way tolive on this side of the point of no return.' Wayde Compton, author of TheOuter Harbour
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