But Flora has become deeply interested in the Unnamed Midwife’s journals, and so the first book reaches cleanly into the third in many ways. The Book Of Flora picks up immediately following the events of the Book Of Etta. Almost everyone in these books is a renegade of gender, in one way or another, and has fought to keep themselves free. Far more men than women survived, and the additional difficulties of reproduction have made women rare and has warped humanity’s expectations and beliefs about gender.

Their journey is shaped by the first two books: a plague wiped out most of the human population and made childbirth very dangerous and difficult. She is traveling with her closest companions - notably Eddy and Alice, from The Book Of Etta, and her adopted child, Connie. The Book Of Flora is about Flora a silk-thrower and Horsewoman from Jeff City. To start, what is The Book Of Flora about, and how does it connect, both narratively and chronologically, to the other two books in The Road To Nowhere trilogy: The Book Of The Unnamed Midwife and The Book Of Etta? But in the following email interview, she explains that while you can buy all three books at the same time, you may not want to read them that way. With The Book Of Flora ( paperback, Kindle), writer Meg Elison is bringing her dystopian sci-fi reproductive futurist trilogy The Road To Nowhere to a close.

The unnamed midwife