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In the fractured land of Rakana, blue is power, and power is complete control.
The Governors, draped in their indigo authority, watch from the Edge, keeping the numbers, apportioning lives by rules older than memory.
Sixteen-year-old Tula is not meant to carry a future within her – pregnancy must be taken in turn, and babies born out of turn vanish, redirected by the quiet machinery of control. But Tula dares to escape the prescribed order. Guided by the whispered strength of her grandmother, she journeys beyond the known in a doomed effort to keep her child. But the shocking forbidden truths that she uncovers along the way inform her strategy for how to reclaim her future . . . and ignite a revolution.
A haunting tale of insistence on freedom in a world determined to deny it, FLAX is an unforgettable adventure, a challenge to the very fabric of domination.
Alison Jean Lester is the author of the novels Lillian on Life (Putnam Books US / John Murray Books UK, 2015), Yuki Means Happiness (John Murray Books, 2017), Glide (Bench Press Books, 2021) and The Sound of It (Bench Press Books, 2022). She is also the author of the short-story collection Locked Out: Stories Far from Home (Monsoon Books, 2007) and the memoir Absolutely Delicious: A Chronicle of Extraordinary Dying (Bench Press Books, 2020).
