Bina Shah, "Before She Sleeps" (Delphinium Books, 2018)

New Books in Literature · Dec 20, 2018 · 31m

Bina Shah’s Before She Sleeps (Delphinium Books, 2018) is set in a near-future Pakistan where a repressive patriarchy requires women to take multiple husbands and become full-time baby makers after wars and disease render women devastatingly scarce. A reviewer in the Los Angeles Times called it a “thrilling novel” with “exquisite” social commentary. Before She Sleeps was also among the books recently highlighted in an article in The Atlanticabout “The Remarkable Rise of the Feminist Dystopia.” Before She Sleeps focuses on a group of women who’ve found a modicum of freedom by hiding…