What are you reading this week of January 15, 2017?

[getting old in mke]

3. Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison

Post-apocalytic journey.

Pandemic, 98% men die and 99.8% of women. All children and mothers in childbirth going forward.

Heroine is a labor and delivery nurse who, after recovering, starts a journey to survive, provide birth control, and ultimately try to fit into some community somewhere.

Dark, ugly, and raw for much of it--society did not collapse into neat little communities banding together. Rather it is primarily raiding parties of men with women owned by them. It's the other-than-primarily groups that make her continue to live.

Pretty good look at the conflict within her as well as outside.