Publication date UK format 14/6/22 audio time 9h 15m book 272 pages
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Synopsis
From the author of The Heavens, a dazzling, mind-bending novel in which all men mysteriously disappear from the face of the earth Deep in the California woods on an evening in late August, Jane Pearson is camping with her husband Leo and their five-year-old son Benjamin. As dusk sets in, she drifts softly to sleep in a hammock strung outside the tent where Leo and Benjamin are preparing for bed. At that moment, every single person with a Y chromosome vanishes around the world, disappearing from operating theaters mid-surgery, from behind the wheels of cars, from arguments and acts of love. Children, adults, even fetuses are gone in an instant. Leo and Benjamin are gone. No one knows why, how, or where. After the Disappearance, Jane forces herself to enter a world she barely recognizes, one where women must create new ways of living while coping with devastating grief. As people come together to rebuild depopulated industries and distribute scarce resources, Jane focuses on reuniting with an old college girlfriend, Evangelyne Moreau, leader of the Commensalist Party of America, a rising political force in this new world. Meanwhile, strange video footage called “The Men” is being broadcast online showing images of the vanished men marching through barren, otherworldly landscapes. Is this just a hoax, or could it hold the key to the Disappearance? From the author of The Heavens, The Men is a gripping, beautiful, and disquieting novel of feminist utopias and impossible sacrifices that interrogates the dream of a perfect society and the conflict between individual desire and the good of the community.
My review
This book was certainly a very interesting journey. It was one of them unusual books that your either going to love or hate with it . With its very unique story line. It's a book the likes of which I have never seen before. I was very interested in read a book where all the men disappear. Then life must go on for all the women must carry on. It's a genre hybrid type book that is part dystopia, part thriller, part romance and part LGBTQIA.
I listened to the audiobook and liked the narrator who brought great atmosphere to the story.
As I write this review I am still sat on the fence as to whether I liked this book or whether I didn't. It seem to trigger my autism with its none logical story. I really felt this book could of been so much better if it would of followed a slightly different path. Saying all this it did really make me read on to find out what was going to happen next. I was neither elated nor disappointed by this book.
I definitely recommend this book if you love to read unusual storyline. I would recommend you read a sample of this book to decide for yourself if you love or loathe this book as everyone's tastes are very unique.
Many thanks to the author and publishers for creating this very interesting and extremely unique novel.
Where you can buy this book
Amazon US K $9.45, AUDIBLE, HC $21.99
Waterstones HB £14.99
B&N HC $21.99 N $15.99 , AUDIO
Kobo ebook £0.99
Amazon UK K £0.99, AUDIBLE, HC £11.99, PB £15.99
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