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Jan 18, 2017
I highly recommend this book for fans of Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" or the 2006 movie "Children of Men". This story deals with the traumatic end of the world by plague scenario that many of us know, however, Elison's story focuses on certain women's issues that many of the end of days books overlook. Child-bearing has become nearly impossible and the descreased population of women who survived has factured society even further. Into this world walks the midwife, a cautious survivor who is going to use all her wits and training to try to provide what succor she can for those other women who have survived whether that means providing birth-control shots or shooting away men who won't take no for an answer. Dark story that deals with possibly triggering situations but uses those darker elements for the purposes of bettery story-telling.