Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Naomi Kritzer's *Obstetrix* is a new, tense thriller in the mode of Atwood's ...

Naomi Kritzer's *Obstetrix* is a new, tense thriller in the mode of Atwood's *Handmaid's Tale* and Alderman's *The Power*; it's a beautifully turned, claustrophobic horror novel about an obstetrician who's been kidnapped by a Christian cult obsessed with fertility:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250423375/obstetrix/

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