BEFORE SHE SLEEPS by Bina Shah

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In Before She Sleeps, Bina Shah introduces readers to the dystopian world of Green City, where gender selection, war, and disease have led to a dangerously low ratio of women to men.

This literary fiction novel follows women living in an underground collective, resisting a society that forces them into multiple marriages to produce children quickly.

In Before She Sleeps, these women provide intimacy without sex to the elite men of Green City, but as Bina Shah reveals, even the most powerful can’t protect them from ruthless punishment. Before She Sleeps is a chilling exploration of control, power, and survival, as Bina Shah imagines a post-religious, authoritarian world where women’s bodies are at the center of oppression. This literary fiction novel echoes themes from The Handmaid’s Tale.