Saltwater City, Post-Pipeline Era. The tiger flu has killed almost all men. Under the threatening shadow of satellites gone mad, like the powerful figures who control them, Kora Ko and Kirilov Volubilis embark on a journey of transformation as dark and profound as their families’ secrets.
Set in a land ravaged by an epidemic that has killed most of the men, Les sœurs de la Muée depicts a world populated almost entirely by women. Descendants of slave clones, the Muantes have founded a self-sufficient sorority, whose reproductive technology is under threat. This is why the young Kirilov Volubilis embarks on a journey that will take her to Kora Ko, a human who was also forced to leave her family to attend a survival school for girls.
Heir to Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butler, Larissa Lai depicts, in this biopunk thriller and lesbian coming-of-age novel, an unjust and fractured post-oil society, where two young heroines must accept the horror of their shared origins and overcome the hatred between their peoples to offer a better future to those who come after them.
The original English edition of Les sœurs de la Muée (The Tiger Flu) won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award in the lesbian fiction category.
