A Gift Upon The Shore ~ M.K. Wren

My reasons for picking A Gift Upon The Shore were many. It was written by M. K. Wren, a talented female science fiction writer. One of my interests is science fiction written by women about women so this book definitely has a place in my library. The book's focus is preservation of knowledge, which is a subject especially important to me as a librarian.

Publishers Weekly wrote the following description: "Unsparing but ultimately hopeful, this elegiac novel, set in the near future, traces the first generations to survive nuclear war and ensuing plagues. Writer Mary Hope and Rachel Morrow, a painter, eke out a meager existence at a farm on the Oregon coast. As they struggle through the Long Winter following The End -- as the nuclear disaster is simply called -- their desolation is succeeded by a determination to collect and preserve for a new civilization the great books of Western culture."

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