Westward Women

<p><b>'An audacious first novel to set beside Margaret Atwood's provocative first novel <i>The Edible Woman</i>' JOYCE CAROL OATES</b><br><b><br>'Intimate, nostalgic, and downright terrifying' OLIVIA GATWOOD</b><br><b><br>'An all-American fever dream' LEE CLAY JOHNSON</b><br>_____________________________________________________________________________<br><br><b><i>It starts with an itch.</i></b><br><br>In 1970s America, in homes across the country, women ages eighteen to thirty-five begin to slow down.<br><br><b><i>Tired. Blank. Restless.</i></b><br><br>Drawn to the Pacific Ocean like it's calling them home, they abandon their lives -- jobs, families, their very selves. And once they reach the West, they vanish forever.<br><br>At the center of the story are three young women caught in the pull of something unstoppable.<br><br><b>Aimee</b> follows the trail of her missing best friend to a man called the Piper -- known for leading infected women West.<br><br><b>Teenie</b>, afflicted and unraveling, clings to a single memory as she looks out the window of the Piper's van.<br><br>And <b>Eve</b>, a former journalist, is chasing the story that might just consume her . . .<br>_____________________________________________________________________________<br><br><b>'A speculative feminist road trip thriller unlike any other' GINA CHUNG</b><br><br><b>'Taut and shocking' ANNA NORTH</b></p>