An Excess Male Lib/E (Audiobook)

from wagner.sarah35

In the not so distant future, the male population of China exceeds the females so much that each woman can marry up to three men - an arrangement called "Advanced Families". In this novel, a man in his forties, who has just saved up the money for a dowry, fights to be accepted into a family with ...

from pwaites

The Handmaid's Tale is an apt comparison for An Excess Male, a dystopic sci-fi novel that extrapolates the results of China's One Child Policy. An Excess Male centers around one family and Wei-guo, an “excess male” who hopes to join that family. In the future imagined by King, China has turned to...

from Noeshia

I read this one because of a review that recommended it for how it deals with notions of gender and relationships. This was a ride. I'm not sure how I feel about it. I was hooked to the story and the characters without doubt, but I'm not sure why. Maybe it was the way that all of the characters w...

from Strider66

Pros: brilliant world-building, fascinating diverse characters, interesting premise Cons: can get very emotionally heavy at times The China of this future has a Bounty of unmarried men. Lee Wei-guo is a 44 year old gym owner and coach and the general of the Strategic Games army Middle Kingdom....

from rivkat

40 million excess young men in China, created by a combination of son preference and the one-child policy, pose a profound challenge, to which a repressive government responds by (1) formalizing and routinizing prostitution involving non-Chinese women imported for this specific purpose, (2) insti...