Buzzard
"In 2086, corporations are monitoring fertility. Abortion is illegal. And the last woman alive who can perform the procedure is in hiding. Seven years ago, midwife Mae Bastet was arrested for infanticide in the fractious Arizona Territory for providing health care to women in need. She was torn from...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Francisco :
Left Unread Books, an imprint of Bindery Books,
[2026]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "In 2086, corporations are monitoring fertility. Abortion is illegal. And the last woman alive who can perform the procedure is in hiding. Seven years ago, midwife Mae Bastet was arrested for infanticide in the fractious Arizona Territory for providing health care to women in need. She was torn from her sons and sent to Buzzard--an experimental private prison deep in the Sonoran Desert, run by the paramilitary corporation Obsityan. Desperate to reunite her family, Mae tries to keep her head down, swallow her prison-issued hormone supplements, and do her job as a glorified school nurse to Obsityan's army of teenage drone pilots. But when mysterious, improbable pregnancies begin cropping up in her charges, she uncovers a web of secrets that has the power to destroy Obsityan. Mae must choose: stay complicit in Obsityan's crimes or hold fast to her midwife principles and risk never seeing her sons again. Buzzard is a ferocious dystopian debut that traces the possible trajectory of our current political and technological reality--and the power of our deepest human bonds."--Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 358 pages ; 21 cm |
| Audience: | "CW: Sexual assault of a child. Readers do not see the content of the video but will know what is taking place. Aditionally, the novel includes on-page medical procedures, including abortion, as well as discussion of traumatic birth and sexual assault."--t.p. verso. |
| ISBN: | 9781967967261 1967967261 |
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