The Book of the Unnamed Midwife Audiobook (Free)

A Publishers Weekly Best Reserve of 2016 and Philip K. Dick Award Winner

When she fell asleep, the globe was doomed. When she awoke, it had been dead.

In the wake of the fever that decimated the earth’s population—killing females and children and producing childbirth deadly for the mother and infant—the midwife must pick her way through the bone fragments from the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Eliminated are the pillars of civilization. Everything that remains can be power—as well as the solid who possess it.

A few ladies like her survived, though they are scarce. Actually fewer are secure in the clans of males, who, driven by fear, look for to regulate those staying. To preserve her independence, she dons men’s clothing, goes by false titles, and avoids as many people as it can be. But mainly because the world continues to grapple using its terrible circumstances, she’ll locate a role greater than chasing a pale imitation of self-reliance.

In the end, if humanity is usually to be reborn, someone must be its guide.