The Only Ones, Paperback

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O, The Oprah Magazine's Top 10 Favorite Books of 2015. Washington Post Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of 2015. ""Fascinating... A heart-piercing tale of love, desire and acceptance. Readers will be mesmerized by Dibbell s staccato prose as much as they are by the harrowing circumstances this mother and child must endure.""Washington Post ""Breathtaking. Dibbell has] delivered a debut novel on par with some of the best speculative fiction of the past 30 years; The Only Ones deserves to be shelved alongside Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring, and P. D. James' The Children of Men. It's that good, and that important, and that heartbreakingly beautiful.""NPR ""A genre-bending work of punk-rock science fiction.""Nylon ""Densely written but swiftly told, this first novel from rock critic Dibbell starts out as literary dystopia and ends up as a deft study of human identity, desperation, and longing.""Library Journal ""A well-known rock critic, Dibbell infuses her debut novel with the stylistic grace of a seasoned writer.""Time Out New York ""On the other side of Aldous Huxley's brave new world is Carola Dibbell's braver one, all the more unsettling (and maybe even more profound) for being not five hundred years from now but five minutes, in a time at once beyond our control and too immediate to escape. Brilliantly conceived, passionately defiant, deeply felt, The Only Ones introduces in the form of central character Inez Fardo one of the most memorable and compelling first-person voices in recent American fiction.""Steve Erickson ""A bracing, tough minded, farsighted novel about bravery and endurance, motherhood and the way life goes on even after the world ends. Every sentence pierces.""Kelly Link Inez wanders a post-pandemic world, strangely immune to disease, making her living by volunteering as a test subject. She is hired to provide genetic material to a grief-stricken, affluent mother, who lost all four of her daughters within four sho