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SUMMARY:The Book of Joan - by Lidia Yuknavitch
DESCRIPTION:DOES JOAN OF ARC WORK IN THE 21st CENTURY?\nLETS SEE!\n\nIn the
  near future\, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. 
 Fleeing the unending violence and the planet’s now-radioactive surface\,
  humans have regrouped to a mysterious platform known as CIEL\, hovering o
 ver their erstwhile home. The changed world has turned evolution on its he
 ad: the surviving humans have become sexless\, hairless pale-white creatur
 es floating in isolation\, inscribing stories upon their skin.\n\nOut of t
 he ranks of the endless wars rises Jean de Men\, a charismatic and bloodth
 irsty cult leader who turns CIEL into a quasi-corporate police state. A gr
 oup of rebels unite to dismantle his iron rule—galvanized by the heroic 
 song of Joan\, a child-warrior who possesses a mysterious force that lives
  within her and communes with the earth. When de Men and his armies turn J
 oan into a martyr\, the consequences are astonishing. And no one—not the
  rebels\, Jean de Men\, or even Joan herself—can foresee the way her sto
 ry and unique gift will forge the destiny of an entire world for generatio
 ns.\n\nA riveting tale of destruction and love found in direst of places
 —even at the extreme end of post-human experience—Lidia Yuknavitch’s
  The Book of Joan raises questions about what it means to be human\, the f
 luidity of sex and gender\, and the role of art as means for survival.\n\n
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