Book of Etta

Meg Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. Her debut novel, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, won the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award. Its sequel, The Book of Etta, is the second novel in the Road to Nowhere trilogy. The author lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and writes like she’s running out of time.

A Publishers Weekly Top 10 pick for Spring 2017An Amazon Book Editor’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Book of the Month for February 2017“[A] devastating climax...Pulls no punches.” —Kirkus Reviews“Elison continues to startle her readers with unexpected gender permutations and fascinating relationships worked out in front of a convincingly detailed landscape.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Elison takes a nuanced look at the physical and psychological effects of sexual assault and forces its characters and readers alike to consider how it feels to be born with a culturally taboo identity.” —Booklist“Elison’s powerful, evocative narrative…will immerse you in the story and keep you turning the pages.” —Jon DeNardo, Kirkus Reviews“The Road to Nowhere trilogy asks big questions about a world that’s more possible than we might imagine, and it’s a radically queer treatise on the future of sex.” —LitReactor