CHRISTINA DALCHER

OMETIMES, A WRITER CAN TELL YOU where a book began its journey to publication. That’s the case with Christina Dalcher’s , a dystopian take on a women-only society. It sprang into life when she read a synopsis for Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s utopian (1915). “I knew I wanted to flip on its head and create not a benevolent all-female community but a sinister one,” she says. “A place where the idea of living without men is taken to an extreme.”