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ISBN: 9781551527314
Year: 2019
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Description:
A stunning novel about a community of parthenogenic women under
siege after the end of the world.
In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai―her
firstin sixteen years―a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile
by patriarchal and corporate Salt Water City, go to war against disease,
technology, and an economic system that threatens them with extinction.
Kirilow is a
doctor apprentice whose lover, Peristrophe, is a "starfish," a woman who can
regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help her clone sisters
whose organs are failing. When a denizen from Salt Water City suffering from a mysterious
flu comes into their midst, Peristrophe becomes infected and dies, prompting
Kirilow to travel to Salt Water City, where the flu is now a pandemic, to find
a new starfish who will help save her sisters. There, Kirilow meets Kora, a
girl-woman desperate to save her family from the epidemic. Kora has everything
Kirilow is looking for, except the will to abandon her own family. But before
Kirilow can convince her, both are kidnapped by a mysterious group of men to
serve as test subjects for a new technology that can cure the mind of the body.
'After disease and environmental destruction reorder the
world, Larissa Lai's rebel clones and flu-ridden survivors inhabit a future
both wildly imaginative and shockingly cruel. Blending the surreal and
the entirely possible, The Tiger Flu is majestically compelling. A
must-read.' — Eden Robinson, author of Son
of a Trickster
'Larissa Lai's imagination is both scintillating
and dark, and somewhere in this inte
ISBN: 9781551527314
Year: 2019
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Description:
A stunning novel about a community of parthenogenic women under
siege after the end of the world.
In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai―her
firstin sixteen years―a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile
by patriarchal and corporate Salt Water City, go to war against disease,
technology, and an economic system that threatens them with extinction.
Kirilow is a
doctor apprentice whose lover, Peristrophe, is a "starfish," a woman who can
regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help her clone sisters
whose organs are failing. When a denizen from Salt Water City suffering from a mysterious
flu comes into their midst, Peristrophe becomes infected and dies, prompting
Kirilow to travel to Salt Water City, where the flu is now a pandemic, to find
a new starfish who will help save her sisters. There, Kirilow meets Kora, a
girl-woman desperate to save her family from the epidemic. Kora has everything
Kirilow is looking for, except the will to abandon her own family. But before
Kirilow can convince her, both are kidnapped by a mysterious group of men to
serve as test subjects for a new technology that can cure the mind of the body.
'After disease and environmental destruction reorder the
world, Larissa Lai's rebel clones and flu-ridden survivors inhabit a future
both wildly imaginative and shockingly cruel. Blending the surreal and
the entirely possible, The Tiger Flu is majestically compelling. A
must-read.' — Eden Robinson, author of Son
of a Trickster
'Larissa Lai's imagination is both scintillating
and dark, and somewhere in this inte