The Girl in the Road : A Novel (Paperback)

from lisally

Meena, a young woman in future India, flees her home after discovering a snake in her bed. Feeling her life is in danger, Meena heads north to Mumbai, where she learns of the "Trail," a floating generator spanning the Arabian Sea that converts wave energy to electricity. Stories of travelers cros...

from mmoj

I received this ARC copy from Read It Forward. This was a thought provoking book and very much outside my usual books - and was really looking forward to the story. But there is just SO many issues covered, it was almost more than the story could handle. Add to that fact that the story is set in ...

from bg853

I found this book to be a very difficult read. There are two protagonists each one occupying a different timeline many years apart. Add to that a dystopian society, delusional characters, a world full of sci-fi inventions, violence and sex. I might have been able to handle all that but I found th...

from gendeg

Monica Byrne's The Girl in the Road is an ambitiously inventive story set against a backdrop you rarely see in speculative fiction, where today's developing countries are tomorrow's superpowers, a world where "Africa is the new India, after India became the new America, after America became the n...

from caalynch

I began this book with trepidation after reading some early reviews, however, it didn't take me long to come to really enjoy the journey of the two main characters. The book opens jarringly and it took awhile to keep step with the pace. However, once both separate journeys began, I was hooked. I ...