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The Men

by Sandra Newman
Mia Barron
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From the author of The Heavens, a dazzling, mind-bending novel in which all people with a Y chromosome mysteriously disappear from the face of the earth
Deep in the California woods on an evening in late August, Jane Pearson is camping with her husband Leo and their five-year-old son Benjamin. As dusk sets in, she drifts softly to sleep in a hammock strung outside the tent where Leo and Benjamin are preparing for bed.
At that moment, every single person with a Y chromosome vanishes around the world, disappearing from operating theaters mid-surgery, from behind the wheels of cars, from arguments and acts of love. Children, adults, even fetuses are gone in an instant. Leo and
Benjamin are gone. No one knows why, how, or where.
After the Disappearance, Jane forces herself to enter a world she barely recognizes, one where women must create new ways of living while coping with devastating grief. As people come together to rebuild depopulated industries and distribute scarce resources,
Jane focuses on reuniting with an old college girlfriend, Evangelyne Moreau, leader of the Commensalist Party of America, a rising political force in this new world. Meanwhile, strange video footage called "The Men" is being broadcast online showing images of the
vanished men marching through barren, otherworldly landscapes. Is this just a hoax, or could it hold the key to the Disappearance?
From the author of The Heavens, The Men is a gripping, beautiful, and disquieting novel of feminist utopias and impossible sacrifices that interrogates the dream of a perfect society and the conflict between individual desire and the good of the community.

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  • Release date

    June 14, 2022

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781705062739
      • File size: 238618 KB
      • Duration: 08:17:07

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      June 10, 2024

      Newman's (The Heavens) latest, imagining a world in which all the men mysteriously disappear, will sit poorly with some for its halfhearted acknowledgment that a Y chromosome-targeting apocalypse affects more than men--trans women and girls, cis boys, nonbinary and intersex people are zapped into a Boschian torment realm, too. And of course, it passes over trans men and other nonwomen without the damning chromosome. Unlike Brian K. Vaughn's Y: The Last Man, centering on a sole surviving cis man or Christina Sweeney-Baird's women protagonists in The End of Men, Newman's novel might have included those who'd had to fight for gender recognition. Rather, listeners follow cis white woman Jane through a long flashback to her disturbing history of sexual exploitation as both victim and victimizer and getting her perspective-from-privilege on American race relations when she meets Evangelyne, a charismatic, brilliant Black woman calling for change in the post-event power vacuum. Narrator Mia Barron summons authentic emotion and dramatic pacing for a performance that demands little accent craft or dialogue differentiation, rendering this hesitant approach to a familiar premise somewhat emboldened in audio. VERDICT: With earnestness undercut by conventionality, this is a strictly optional purchase.--Lauren Kage

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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