Westward Women

The Girls meets Station Eleven in this eerie, hypnotic literary debut which unflinchingly explores women's rage, desire and agency in a world bent on controlling their bodies.

'An audacious first novel to set beside Margaret Atwood's provocative first novel The Edible Woman' JOYCE CAROL OATES

'Intimate, nostalgic, and downright terrifying' OLIVIA GATWOOD

'An all-American fever dream' LEE CLAY JOHNSON

It starts with an itch.

In 1970s America, 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 . . .

'A speculative feminist road trip thriller unlike any other' GINA CHUNG

'Taut and shocking' ANNA NORTH

About the Author

Alice Martin holds a PhD in Literature from Rutgers University. She is an Assistant Professor of English Studies at Western Carolina University, where she teaches fiction writing and American literature. She lives outside of Asheville, North Carolina with her husband, her son, and too many typewriters. Westward Women is her debut novel.