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Womb City
Womb City | Tlotlo Tsamaase
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"A fierce, furious, and fearless debut that has its finger on the pulse--no, the gushing wound--of our world's most invasive cruelties." --Daniel Kraus, New York Times bestselling co-author of The Shape of Water "Masterful . . . Tsamaase has created a disturbing techno dystopia in a future Botswana that terrifies with its echoes of our own increasingly authoritarian cyber-policed world. This beautifully written work haunts and upends expectations with its resurrected ghosts and gods and ancestors of Motswana cosmology. What an accomplished debut!" --T. L. Huchu, Caine Prize finalist and author of The Library of the Dead This genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends The Handmaid's Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman's right to her own body. Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman who uses a microchip to monitor her every move, Nelah's perfect life is precarious. After a drug-fueled evening culminates in an eerie car accident, Nelah commits a desperate crime and buries the body, daring to hope that she can keep one last secret. The truth claws its way into Nelah's life from the grave. As the ghost of her victim viciously hunts down the people Nelah holds dear, she is thrust into a race against the clock: in order to save any of her remaining loved ones, Nelah must unravel the political conspiracy her victim was on the verge of exposing--or risk losing everyone. Set in a cruel futuristic surveillance state where bodies are a government-issued resource, this harrowing story is a twisty, nail-biting commentary on power, monstrosity, and bodily autonomy. In sickeningly evocative prose, Womb City interrogates how patriarchy pits women against each other as unwitting collaborators in their own oppression. In this devastatingly timely debut novel, acclaimed short fiction writer Tlotlo Tsamaase brings a searing intelligence and Botswana's cultural sensibility to the question: just how far must a woman go to bring the whole system crashing down?
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BookishTrish
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A most excellent dark sci fi technothriller. Highly recommended.

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vlwelser
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Done! This has Black Mirror vibes.

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vlwelser
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Sunrise reading at the beach. Hopefully I'll finish this one today so you'll stop seeing pics of it. 😂

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vlwelser
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This morning's beach read.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great cover and photo ❤️ 9mo
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vlwelser
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Giving the battery a rest....

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Melismatic
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My book prize arrived today from the GR giveaway! Sounds like a scorcher. 😰

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Melismatic
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Dang, I have never won in those GR giveaways before!! Excited bc this book was on my list as a January new release I wanted to look into. 💪🏻🫶🏻✨

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Me and this book sitting on the floor at BWI. Flight not on time.

TheBookHippie Ughhhhh 11mo
TheBookHippie I‘m so happy Mr BookHippie doesn‘t fly this week anymore. Although he could get caught in it next week 😵‍💫 11mo
vlwelser @TheBookHippie meh. Boston is usually the problem. But I'm never going to stay put just for that. I'm only like an hour late and there's always books. 11mo
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TheBookHippie @vlwelser he gets caught in LaGuardia a lot .. 11mo
vlwelser @TheBookHippie I got stuck in MD for 5 extra days last year. It makes other things seem tolerable. 11mo
vlwelser @TheBookHippie my boss is stuck in Dominica (sp?) rn. I want that problem. 11mo
TheBookHippie @vlwelser yah somewhere warm! 11mo
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