The tiger flu : a novel

Summary: In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai--her first in sixteen years--a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by the male-dominated Salt Water City, goes to war against disease, technology, and powerful men that threaten 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 Salt Water 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 group of powerful 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 female hero's saga, a cyberpunk thriller, and a convention-breaking cautionary tale--a striking metaphor for our complicated times.

Record details

ISBN: 9781551527321
ISBN: 1551527324
ISBN: 9781551527314
ISBN: 1551527316
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource
Publisher: Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Cast of Characters; Part I; 1 Fourth Wave; 2 The Starfish Groom; 3 Earth Apples; 4 A Stranger in the Woods; 5 Wet Market Encounter; 6 The Salty's Hand; 7 Isabelle Shrine; 8 The Last Doubler; 9 Goat Stew; 10 Dancing Fool; 11 Please Don't Leave Me; 12 The Last Starfish; 13 Cordova Dancing School for Girls; 14 Bombyx Mori's Surprise; 15 The Worst Thing Done for Food; 16 Storm Travellers; Part II; 17 Homesick; 18 State Your Intentions; 19 The Sleeping Sparrow; 20 The Famous Doctor; 21 Forage Dance; 22 Groomed for Travel; 23 Catcoat

Source of Description Note:

Title detail screen (OverDrive, viewed December 6, 2018).