Westward Women
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''An audacious first novel to set beside Margaret Atwood''s provocative first novel The Edible Woman'' Joyce Carol Oates
In the summer of 1973, a mysterious infection spurs women across the United States to leave their homes and migrate toward the Pacific Ocean. At a loss for what causes the infection, how it''s spread, or what it may ultimately cause women to do, the public refers to the 700,000 women who go missing simply as ''the westward women''.
Three women are caught in the infection''s riptide. Cautious twenty-two-year-old Aimee goes in search of her enigmatic, newly infected childhood friend, only to find herself haunted by the voices of other westward women everywhere she goes. Meanwhile, Eve, an ambitious young journalist, is determined to prove her worth by writing a story about a man she hears is collecting infected women across the country. Finally, infected sixteen-year-old Teenie, still grieving from the loss of her sister, begins traveling with a man known only as the Piper, who claims to protect girls like her...
''An audacious first novel to set beside Margaret Atwood''s provocative first novel The Edible Woman'' JOYCE CAROL OATES
''Intimate, nostalgic, and downright terrifying'' OLIVIA GATWOOD
''An all-American fever dream'' LEE CLAY JOHNSON
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It starts with an itch.
In 1970s America, in homes across the country, women ages eighteen to thirty-five begin to slow down.
Tired. Blank. Restless.
Drawn to the Pacific Ocean like it''s calling them home, they abandon their lives -- jobs, families, their very selves. And once they reach the West, they vanish forever.
At the center of the story are three young women caught in the pull of something unstoppable.
Aimee follows the trail of her missing best friend to a man called the Piper -- known for leading infected women West.
Teenie, afflicted and unraveling, clings to a single memory as she looks out the window of the Piper''s van.
And Eve, a former journalist, is chasing the story that might just consume her...
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''A speculative feminist road trip thriller unlike any other'' GINA CHUNG
''Taut and shocking'' ANNA NORTH
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