@booklet {11244, title = {Afterland}, year = {2020}, note = {

An excerpt was published in The Johannesburg Review of Books 4.4 (April 2020). [The JRB Daily] [Exclusive] \‘A notice at the cash register with a sad-face emoji reads, \“Sorry! Hand Sanitizer Sold Out!\”\’\—Read an excerpt from Lauren Beukes\’s prescient new novel Afterland \– The Johannesburg Review of Books.

}, month = {2020}, pages = {411 pp}, publisher = {Mulholland Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The novel is set in a future in which very few males are born and a mother and her young son, disguised as her daughter, travel across America, fleeing all those who would use him for their own purposes.

}, keywords = {Female author, South African author}, isbn = {978-0-316-26783-0}, author = {Lauren [Ann] Beukes (b. 1976)} }