Westward Women

A Novel

By: Alice Martin

Narrated by: Mia Hutchinson-Shaw, Mia Wurgaft, Saskia Maarleveld

For fans of Emma Cline and Emily St. John Mandel, Westward Women is a hypnotic and hopeful debut—part fever dream, part dystopian road trip that claws its way toward a jaw-dropping finale.

This program features multicast narration and light sound design.

"An audacious first novel to set beside Margaret Atwood." —Joyce Carol Oates

It starts with an itch.

In homes across the country, women ages eighteen to thirty-five begin to slow down.

Tired. Blank. Restless.

Drawn to the Pacific Ocean like it’s calling them home. They abandon their lives—jobs, families, their very selves. And once they reach the West, they vanish forever.

At the center of the story are three young women caught in the pull of something unstoppable.

Aimee follows the trail of her missing best friend to a man called the Piper—known for leading infected women West.

Teenie, afflicted and unraveling, clings to a single memory as she looks out the window of the Piper’s van.

And Eve, a former journalist, is chasing the story that might just consume her.

Each on the edge of transformation. Drawn toward the unknown. In search of a way forward.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press

Not Much to Read About

The plot (plots?) was all over the place and honestly felt like the author decided on another story entirely a quarter of the way through. The ending seemed very contrived and like it was trying to be like The Handmaid’s Tale. Disappointing.