The Tiger Flu [electronic resource]
Larissa Lai2018
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WINNER, Lambda Literary Award
In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai-her first in sixteen years-a community of
parthenogenic women, sent into exile by the male-dominated Salt Water City, goes
to war against disease, technology, and powerful men that threaten them with
extinction.
Kirilow is a doctor apprentice whose lover Peristrophe is a "starfish," a woman
who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help her clone
sisters whose organs are failing. When a denizen from Salt Water City suffering
from a mysterious flu comes into their midst, Peristrophe becomes infected and
dies, prompting Kirilow to travel to Salt Water City, where the flu is now a
pandemic, to find a new starfish who will help save her sisters. There, Kirilow
meets Kora, a girl-woman desperate to save her family from the epidemic. Kora
has everything Kirilow is looking for, except the will to abandon her own
family. But before Kirilow can convince her, both are kidnapped by a group o...
Main title:
The Tiger Flu [electronic resource] / Larissa Lai
Author:
Larissa Lai, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781551527321
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
433748
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