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Afterland, by Lauren Beukes

Afterland, by Lauren Beukes

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In a future where most of the men are dead, Cole and her twelve-year-old son Miles are on the run from the most dangerous person she knows … her sister.
 
Miles is one of the lucky survivors of a global pandemic. But, in a world of women, that also makes him a hot commodity.
 
The Department of Men wants to lock him away in quarantine, forever, maybe.
 
A sinister cult of neon nuns wants to claim him for its own; the answer to their prayers.
 
And boy traffickers are close on their heels, thanks to Billie, Cole’s ruthless sister, whom Cole thought she left for dead.
 
In a desperate chase across a radically changed America, Cole will do whatever it takes to get Miles to safety. Because she’s all he’s got.
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John knox
Some food for thought

This was an interesting and intense book especially in light of the global pandemic. The world building was on point, definitely believable in a situation where there are no men.

Definitely gave some food for thought commented on some interesting moral dialmmas in which are relevant to today's current society.

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Kendall Rae Behr
Pandemic read

This was surreal to read during the lockdown this year, and I am still finding words for it. Beukes explores a world without men, but it's not the utopia you mght expect, but rather women are shown as human as men are. I really enjoyed the idea of a pandemic that changed the world in such a concrete way.

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