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Title: Girl One
Author: Sara Flannery Murphy
Release Date: 6.1.21
Publisher: MCD
Publisher's Summary
Orphan Black meets Margaret Atwood in this twisty supernatural thriller about female power and the bonds of sisterhood
Josephine Morrow is Girl One, the first of nine “Miracle Babies” conceived without male DNA, raised on an experimental commune known as the Homestead. When a suspicious fire destroys the commune and claims the lives of two of the Homesteaders, the remaining Girls and their Mothers scatter across the United States and lose touch.
Years later, Margaret Morrow goes missing, and Josie sets off on a desperate road trip, tracking down her estranged sisters who seem to hold the keys to her mother’s disappearance. Tracing the clues Margaret left behind, Josie joins forces with the other Girls, facing down those who seek to eradicate their very existence while uncovering secrets about their origins and unlocking devastating abilities they never knew they had.
A spellbinding supernatural thriller, Girl One combines the provocative imagination of Naomi Alderman's The Power with the propulsive, cinematic storytelling of a Marvel movie. In her electrifying new novel, Sara Flannery Murphy digs deep into women’s extraordinary power and reveals an unassailable truth: so much strength lies in numbers.
My Review
I had to read no further than "Orphan Black meets Margaret Atwood" to send out a request for a review copy of this novel. I always want to read feminist speculative fiction revolving around reproduction and this story was so layered in science and psychology--I loved it!
Orphan Black meets Margaret Atwood in this twisty supernatural thriller about female power and the bonds of sisterhood
Josephine Morrow is Girl One, the first of nine “Miracle Babies” conceived without male DNA, raised on an experimental commune known as the Homestead. When a suspicious fire destroys the commune and claims the lives of two of the Homesteaders, the remaining Girls and their Mothers scatter across the United States and lose touch.
Years later, Margaret Morrow goes missing, and Josie sets off on a desperate road trip, tracking down her estranged sisters who seem to hold the keys to her mother’s disappearance. Tracing the clues Margaret left behind, Josie joins forces with the other Girls, facing down those who seek to eradicate their very existence while uncovering secrets about their origins and unlocking devastating abilities they never knew they had.
A spellbinding supernatural thriller, Girl One combines the provocative imagination of Naomi Alderman's The Power with the propulsive, cinematic storytelling of a Marvel movie. In her electrifying new novel, Sara Flannery Murphy digs deep into women’s extraordinary power and reveals an unassailable truth: so much strength lies in numbers.
My Review
I had to read no further than "Orphan Black meets Margaret Atwood" to send out a request for a review copy of this novel. I always want to read feminist speculative fiction revolving around reproduction and this story was so layered in science and psychology--I loved it!
In the 1970s a group of nine women gathered at a commune called The Homestead, and each give birth via parthenogenesis, an asexual form of reproduction which does not require male sperm. The outside world is both fascinated and enraged. News outlets can't get enough, the scientific community is skeptical, and "prophets" predict the end of men. After a devastating fire occurs at The Homestead, the Girls and Mothers scatter and lose touch.
Flash forward to the early 1990s, Girl One, Josephine "Josie" Morrow returns to her mother's home to find there has been a fire and her mother is missing. On a mission to find her mother, Josie sets out to find all the other Girls and Mothers, uncovering a lot of secrets about The Homestead, the doctor who assisted the Mothers, the lives of each of the Mother/Girl pairs, and each Girl's unique otherworldly powers. This medical thriller was full of great twists and turns that kept me guessing and inspired lots of deep thinking. I selfishly want more, more, MORE and am hoping this becomes a series (although there is no indication of that being the case at this time.)
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