The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling work of literary horror about a woman cloistered in a secretive, violent religious order, while outside the world has fallen into chaos.
From her cell in a mysterious convent, a woman writes the story of her life in whatever she can find—discarded ink, dirt, and even her own blood. A lower member of the Sacred Sisterhood, deemed an unworthy, she dreams of ascending to the ranks of the Enlightened at the center of the convent and of pleasing the foreboding Superior Sister. Outside, the world is plagued by catastrophe—cities are submerged underwater, electricity and the internet are nonexistent, and bands of survivors fight and forage in a cruel, barren landscape. Inside, the narrator is controlled, punished, but safe.
But when a stranger makes her way past the convent walls, joining the ranks of the unworthy, she forces the narrator to consider her long-buried past—and what she may be overlooking about the Enlightened. As the two women grow closer, the narrator is increasingly haunted by questions about her own past, the environmental future, and her present life inside the convent. How did she get to the Sacred Sisterhood? Why can’t she remember her life before? And what really happens when a woman is chosen as one of the Enlightened?
A searing, dystopian tale about climate crisis, ideological extremism, and the tidal pull of our most violent, exploitative instincts, this is another unforgettable novel from a master of feminist horror. — Book promo @ goodreads.com
I finished the fourth page, Great Australian Bicentennial Bike Ride, that converted Google Map API to Maxbox and have added it to the hamburger menu under #Bicycle Tours. I have also updated the two maps which show the current location of my Virtual Walk along Interstate 90.
Started the fifth page of Google Map API conversions a few days ago and it has been a complete bust. ChatGPT and I were trying to use the same coding from the fourth page to show pictures on the fifth one and it just would not work. There was nothing wrong with the coding that we came up with but WordPress does not like HTML and it does not like you to put images in their Custom HTML Block. They have an Image Block and a Galley Block for that or they will let you use the Foo Galley Plugin Block. But, they are going to make it as difficult as they can to prevent you from putting images in the Custom HTML Block.
So, what I did yesterday was throw away most of that coding that was not working and rewrote it using what had worked in the 2nd and 3rd pages with some modifications. Started using the WordPress Group Block for the first time since it seemed to provide a useful purpose that I have not needed before.