EPISODE · May 15, 2020 · 9H 33M
Audiobook: The Tiger Flu: A Novel by Larissa Lai
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431977 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tiger Flu: A Novel Author: Larissa Lai Narrator: Lisa Truong, Grace Lynn Kung Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: May 15, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: 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. Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country's greatest works of literature, performed by Canadian actors.
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