

Mothers and midwives are sacred, but Etta has a different calling.

In the world that is, women are scarce and childbearing is dangerous…yet desperately necessary for humankind’s future. I looked forward to learning what happened to the world that Elison created.Įtta comes from Nowhere, a village of survivors of the great plague that wiped away the world that was.

No one did, so I wound up reading The Book of the Unnamed Midwife and enjoying it. I spent quite a bit of time ignoring the editor’s post, hoping that someone else would volunteer. I did not want to read this book at first, because it is the sequel to a book that I had not read, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife. Dick Award, which Speculative Chic is covering. Why I Chose It: The Book of Etta is one of the nominees for the 2018 Philip K.
