COCKTAILS & CONVERSATION Sci-Fi Book Pick 🛸 Question Title * 1. Which science-fiction book sounds the most interesting? 2040s: The world is unsafe for women alone. Merri’s life has unraveled in a matter of months. She’s lost her home, her job, and her husband. With no other options, she sends a desperate message to the one person she swore she’d never ask for help. Her mother. The woman who vanished decades ago to build Haven, a secluded, self-sustaining town for women who want to live a life free from men. The invite is a lifeline, but Haven isn’t the sanctuary Merri expected. Behind its pretty facade, something festers. The women smile too wide, their loyalty to the cause borders on fanatical, and the unspoken rules? No questions. No men. Yet, babies are born here. Always daughters, never sons. And the deeper Merri digs, the more she realizes that her mother didn’t just escape the world. She remade it . . . And Merri isn't so sure she wants to join this Sisterhood. In the aftermath of a great storm, Cathy sets out with to register the birth of her son. Her husband insists she follow a long-standing family tradition and name the boy after him. But Cathy hesitates, questioning whether it is right for her child to share his name with generations of domineering men. Her choice in this moment will shape the course of their lives. Ten years later, her son has the name chosen by his sibling, and one that will prove as catastrophic as the storm from which it emerged. Or does he have the name his mother set her heart on, believing it will give him the opportunity to become his own person. Or was he named after his father and raised in his image . . . This is the story of three versions of a life and the infinite possibilities that a single decision can spark. It was meant to be an evening to honor and celebrate Ellie’s award-winning, career-making scientific research in cloning. But Ellie has things on her mind. Things like Matthew, her husband, who has left her for a better, newer woman. A woman who is strikingly familiar. Too familiar to be a coincidence. A woman who shouldn't exist. Because Ellie didn't clone herself . . . Done