{"product_id":"9781937512279","title":"The Only Ones","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e's Top 10 Favorite Books of 2015.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Best Science Fiction \u0026amp; Fantasy Books of 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fascinating... A heart-piercing tale of love, desire and acceptance. Readers will be mesmerized by Dibbell’s staccato prose as much as they are by the harrowing circumstances this mother and child must endure.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Breathtaking. [Dibbell has] delivered a debut novel on par with some of the best speculative fiction of the past 30 years; \u003ci\u003eThe Only Ones\u003c\/i\u003e deserves to be shelved alongside Margaret Atwood's \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, Nalo Hopkinson's \u003ci\u003eBrown Girl in the Ring\u003c\/i\u003e, and P. D. James' \u003ci\u003eThe Children of Men\u003c\/i\u003e. It's that good, and that important, and that heartbreakingly beautiful.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A genre-bending work of punk-rock science fiction.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNylon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Densely written but swiftly told, this first novel from rock critic Dibbell starts out as literary dystopia and ends up as a deft study of human identity, desperation, and longing.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A well-known rock critic, Dibbell infuses her debut novel with the stylistic grace of a seasoned writer.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"On the other side of Aldous Huxley's brave new world is Carola Dibbell's braver one, all the more unsettling (and maybe even more profound) for being not five hundred years from now but five minutes, in a time at once beyond our control and too immediate to escape. Brilliantly conceived, passionately defiant, deeply felt, \u003ci\u003eThe Only Ones\u003c\/i\u003e introduces — in the form of central character Inez Fardo — one of the most memorable and compelling first-person voices in recent American fiction.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Steve Erickson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A bracing, tough minded, farsighted novel about bravery and endurance, motherhood and the way life goes on even after the world ends. Every sentence pierces.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Kelly Link\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInez wanders a post-pandemic world, strangely immune to disease, making her living by volunteering as a test subject. She is hired to provide genetic material to a grief-stricken, affluent mother, who lost all four of her daughters within four short weeks. This experimental genetic work is policed by a hazy network of governmental ethics committees, and threatened by the Knights of Life, religious zealots who raze the rural farms where much of this experimentation is done.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the mother backs out at the last minute, Inez is left responsible for the product, which in this case is a baby girl, Ani. Inez must protect Ani, who is a scientific breakthrough, keeping her alive, dodging authorities and religious fanatics, and trying to provide Ani with the childhood that Inez never had, which means a stable home and an education.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a stylish voice influenced by years of music writing, \u003ci\u003eThe Only Ones\u003c\/i\u003e is a time-old story, tender and iconic, about how much we love our children, however they come, as well as a sly commentary on class, politics, and the complexities of reproductive technology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarola Dibbell\u003c\/b\u003e is a highly regarded rock critic whose fiction has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFence\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBlack Clock\u003c\/i\u003e. Writing about books as well as music, Dibbell was a \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e contributor for many years. \u003ci\u003eThe Only Ones\u003c\/i\u003e is her debut novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Two Dollar Radio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057953456368,"sku":"9781937512279","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781937512279_p0.jpg?v=1763661724","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781937512279","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}