The Daughters of Moab
HarperCollins, $22.99 pb, 387 pp
Fiction
The Daughters of Moab by Kim Westwood
by Lisa Bennett •
The Australian landscape boils with lava and shudders with quakes; acid rain scars its parched surfaces. It provides little succour to human survivors; cockroaches outlive other animal species. Adapt or die, the story commands, though enforced adaptations (personified by the transfected Daughters of Moab) are considered the source of the apocalypse.
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