First published 2020
In a world where women's reproductive futures are determined by a bureaucratic lottery, Calla receives a blue ticket—signaling she will never have children. The blue ticket grants her freedom from motherhood but locks her into a predetermined path of sterility and prescribed independence. When Calla begins to resist her assigned fate, she risks everything by attempting to subvert the system that controls women's bodies. Fleeing across a stark, unnamed landscape, she confronts the brutal consequences of challenging a regime that believes it can dictate the most intimate choices of human experience. Her dangerous escape becomes a raw, visceral exploration of bodily autonomy and the primal human desire to define one's own destiny.
Genres: science-fiction, dystopia, gender-studies, feminist-theory, 21st-century
Vibes: dark, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: dystopian-society, resistance-against-oppression
304 pages · Paperback · Anchor
Content warnings: body-horror, infertility, sexism