Breeder

This Lambda Literary Award nominee for 2022 is a dark, trigger-filled read. It has strong echoes of The Handmaid's Tale, but believe it or not, darker. It's a dystopian future after the Fourth Depression. Climate change, world war, infertility, everything bad you can think of has happened. There's one city that has reinvented itself, controlled by a massive corporation that has created its own caste system based society and isolated itself from the rest of the surviving world. Girls are taken at 12 or 13 and placed in incubators where they bear children derived from the embryos of the super fertile. They are called breeders. After a large number of live births, they become shadows, women who have earned enough credit by their birthings to marry and possibly bear their own children. It's so dark, I normally would have had a tough time getting through it. But it is very well written and very fast paced and I ended up devouring it.

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