{"product_id":"the-tiger-flu-paperback","title":"The Tiger Flu - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLarissa Lai\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER, Lambda Literary Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai--her first in sixteen years--a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by the male-dominated Salt Water City, goes to war against disease, technology, and powerful men that threaten them with extinction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 Salt Water 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 group of powerful men to serve as test subjects for a new technology that can cure the mind of the body. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bold, beautiful, and wildly imaginative, \u003ci\u003eThe Tiger Flu\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a female hero's saga, a cyberpunk thriller, and a convention-breaking cautionary tale--a striking metaphor for our complicated times.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLarissa Lai is the author of two novels, \u003ci\u003eWhen Fox Is a Thousand\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSalt Fish Girl\u003c\/i\u003e; two poetry collections, \u003ci\u003esybil unrest\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAutomaton Biographies\u003c\/i\u003e; and a critical nonfiction book \u003ci\u003eSlanting I, Imagining We.\u003c\/i\u003e A Canada Research Chair at the University of Calgary, she directs the Insurgent Architects' House for Creative Writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 23, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42167420420231,"sku":"9781551527314","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/88d13794ff941f963c51481108888308.webp?v=1733327526","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-tiger-flu-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}