Fetal Position : A Novel

The author of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Fortunes of Jaded Women returns with a speculative novel in which a burnt-out corporate employee joins a start-up that promises domestic easebut as women begin to disappear, she must confront the violent cost of complicity.

In the near future, high-value intelligent women are recruited by a mysterious start-up called Hatch to become traditional wives to combat the historically low birthrate and the supposed male loneliness epidemic. In return, youll no longer have to work and youll get a subsidized house, land, and a robot butler thatll do all domestic labor for you.

You simply trade in your corporate labor for child laborthrough being inseminated with a male matchs sperm.

Lena Do is one of those women. Shes been stuck in corporate America for far too long. She hates her life. She has no nuclear family, no cousins, and no support system. The world is shrinking, and its not just the men who are lonely.

So when she receives an invitation to Hatch, shes wooed by their promises of connection and happiness. But when women start disappearing and dying around her, she races against the clock to uncover the truth behind the company before shes trapped foreverall the while trying to discern whose side her robot butler is really on.

With biting social critique, Fetal Position examines survival, complicity, artificial life, bodily autonomy, and the chilling reality of an increasingly data-driven world that optimizes who deserves loveand who deserves to live.