{"product_id":"womb-city-9781645660569","title":"Womb City","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale \u003c\/i\u003ewith \u003ci\u003eGet Out\u003c\/i\u003e in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman's right to her own body.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman who uses a microchip to monitor her every move, Nelah's perfect life is precarious. After a drug-fueled evening culminates in an eerie car accident, Nelah commits a desperate crime and buries the body, daring to hope that she can keep one last secret. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe truth claws its way into Nelah's life from the grave. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the ghost of her victim viciously hunts down the people Nelah holds dear, she is thrust into a race against the clock: in order to save any of her remaining loved ones, Nelah must unravel the political conspiracy her victim was on the verge of exposing--or risk losing everyone. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in a cruel futuristic surveillance state where bodies are a government-issued resource, this harrowing story is a twisty, nail-biting commentary on power, monstrosity, and bodily autonomy. In sickeningly evocative prose, \u003ci\u003eWomb City \u003c\/i\u003einterrogates how patriarchy pits women against each other as unwitting collaborators in their own oppression. In this devastatingly timely debut novel, acclaimed short fiction writer Tlotlo Tsamaase brings a searing intelligence and Botswana's cultural sensibility to the question: just how far must a woman go to bring the whole system crashing down?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Erewhon Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/23\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781645660569\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2023 pg. 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/23\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2023 pg. 43\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tlotlo Tsamaase","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43361518911669,"sku":"9781645660569","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_84a2fc23-64f5-4283-be60-22435b5eed88.jpg?v=1701191403","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/womb-city-9781645660569","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}