In Maggie Shen King's startling and beautiful debut, An Excess Male looks to explore the intersection of marriage, family, gender, and state in an all-too-plausible future. From the Back Cover China's one-child policy and its cultural preference for male heirs have created a society overrun by forty million unmarriageable men. · From debut author Maggie Shen King, An Excess Male is the chilling dystopian tale of politics, inequality, marriage, love, and rebellion, set in a near-future China, that further explores the themes of the classics The Handmaid's Tale and When She Woke. Under the One Child Policy, everyone plotted to have a son. Now 40 million of them can't find wives. An Excess Male explores the marriage plot in a dystopian future and follows in the footsteps of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. It is the story of one excess male, the less-than-perfect family he seeks to join, and the fight for their version of home, for the freedom to be their true selves, and for the country they have lost to a totalitarian regime that aims to control sex and define the boundaries of marriage .
AN EXCESS MALE. by Maggie Shen King. BUY NOW FROM. AMAZON GET WEEKLY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: Email Address Subscribe Tweet. KIRKUS REVIEW. In her provocative debut, King imagines a world in which China's One Child Policy has created a dystopian future of longing, inequality, and constant surveillance. A short story by Maggie Shen King. Set in China in the aftermath of the One Child Policy. This story is the writing exercise that inspired An Excess Male. An Excess Male PDF book by Maggie Shen King Read Online or Free Download in ePUB, PDF, azw3 or MOBI eBooks. Published in September 12th the book become immediate popular and critical acclaim in science fiction, fiction books. The main characters of An Excess Male novel are John, Emma.
Maggie Shen King is the author of An Excess Male (Harper Voyager), a Washington Post Top 5 Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel of , a James Tiptree, Jr., and a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. She is Goodreads September Debut Author the Month. Her short stories have appeared in Ecotone, ZYZZYVA, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and Fourteen Hills. An Excess Male PDF book by Maggie Shen King Read Online or Free Download in ePUB, PDF, azw3 or MOBI eBooks. Published in September 12th the book become immediate popular and critical acclaim in science fiction, fiction books. The main characters of An Excess Male novel are John, Emma. An Excess Male explores the marriage plot in a dystopian future and follows in the footsteps of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. It is the story of one excess male, the less-than-perfect family he seeks to join, and the fight for their version of home, for the freedom to be their true selves, and for the country they have lost to a totalitarian regime that aims to control sex and define the boundaries of marriage in the name of the public good.
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