The Book of Joan: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

The bestselling writer of THE TINY Backs of Kids provide a vision of our near-extinction and a heroine-a reimagined Joan of Arc-poised to save lots of a global ravaged by war, violence, and greed, and forever change history, in this provocative new novel.

In the near future, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. Fleeing the unending violence as well as the planet’s now-radioactive surface, humans have regrouped to a mystical platform known as CIEL, hovering over their erstwhile house..LEARNING MUCH MORE about The Reserve of Joan: A Book The changed world has turned evolution about its mind: the surviving individuals have become sexless, hairless, pale-white creatures floating in isolation, inscribing tales upon their pores and skin.

From the ranks of the endless wars goes up Jean de Men, a charismatic and bloodthirsty cult leader who changes CIEL right into a quasi-corporate police state. Several rebels unite to dismantle his iron rule-galvanized with the heroic tune of Joan, a child-warrior who possesses a mystical power that lives within her and communes with the earth. When de Guys and his armies change Joan right into a martyr, the consequences are astonishing. No one-not the rebels, Jean de Males, as well as Joan herself-can foresee just how her story and unique gift will forge the destiny of a whole world for years.

A riveting tale of damage and love within the direst of places-even in the extreme end of post-human experience-Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Reserve of Joan raises questions about what this means to be human, the fluidity of sex and gender, as well as the part of art as a way for survival.