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The Tiger Flu

A Novel

Audiobook
1 of 1 copy available
1 of 1 copy available

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award

Nominated for The Otherwise Award and The Sunburst Award

"Blending the surreal and the entirely possible, The Tiger Flu is majestically compelling. A must-read." – Eden Robinson, author of Son of a Trickster

In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai – her first in sixteen years – a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by patriarchal and corporate Salt Water City, go to war against disease, technology, and an economic system that threatens them with extinction.

Kirilow is a doctor apprentice whose lover, Peristrophe, is a "starfish," a woman who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help her clone sisters whose organs are failing. When a denizen from Salt Water City suffering from a mysterious flu comes into their midst, Peristrophe becomes infected and dies, prompting Kirilow to travel to the city, where the flu is now a pandemic, to find a new starfish who will help save her sisters. There, Kirilow meets Kora, a girl-woman desperate to save her family from the epidemic. Kora has everything Kirilow is looking for, except the will to abandon her own family. But before Kirilow can convince her, both are kidnapped by a mysterious group of men to serve as test subjects for a new technology that can cure the mind of the body.

Bold, beautiful, and wildly imaginative, The Tiger Flu is at once a saga of two women heroes, a cyberpunk thriller, and a convention-breaking cautionary tale – a striking metaphor for our complicated times.

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    • Library Journal

      October 15, 2018

      Kirilow is a doctor from Grist Village, a community of women who were thrown out of the patriarchal Saltwater City. They exist owing to unique genetic mutations, including solo reproduction and "starfishing" (the ability to regrow and thus donate organs) and with the help of Kirilow and her starfish lover Peristrophe. However, disease ravages the world of 2145, and the tiger flu epidemic is spreading. A stranger from Saltwater City enters the village carrying the flu, causing the death of Peristrpohe. Kirilow wants to grieve but knows she must find another starfish to ensure her village's survival. Hoping to save her family from the sickness, Kora doesn't care that she is the starfish for whom Kirilow is searching. When both are taken captive by a nefarious group planning to use technology to separate the mind from the body, Kora and Kirilow must work together to save their loved ones and possibly the world itself. Daring prose and a dark, cruel landscape enhance this mesmerizing story. VERDICT The latest from Lai (When Fox Is a Thousand; Salt Fish Girl) takes on the extremes of gender, disease, and ecological devastation in a cautionary tale that readers will appreciate as fiction--for now.--Kristi Chadwick, Massachusetts Lib. Syst., Northampton

      Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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