![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The notion of choice is one that Elison takes a step further in the trilogy’s latest and final installment, The Book of Flora. Fortunately, this isn’t as heavy a lift for Etta as it had been for the midwife since Etta prefers to be called Eddie and identifies as male. In this evolved world, Etta is allowed to choose the traditionally male job of raider, although she must still pretend to be a man to travel across a sparsely populated Midwest. The midwife’s legacy lives on in the town of Nowhere, where women are decision-makers and leaders. In the next volume, The Books of Etta, set a century later, gender remains fraught but the rules have changed. To avoid rape and enslavement in this male-dominated landscape, the eponymous midwife must present herself as a man to survive. Dick Award-winning The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, set the tone with a pandemic that destroyed civilization, leaving behind 10 men for every woman. Meg Elison’s The Book of Flora (47North, 2019) trilogy is as much about gender as it is about surviving the apocalypse. ![]()
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