Birthright: A Near-Future Novel, (Paperback)

<p><b>A country votes on banning natural birth-and for one young woman, it's about to become the most personal question of her life.</b></p><p>Europe, 2096. After the collapse of global birthrates, nearly every child is born in artificial wombs and raised in state-run Centers designed to eliminate uncertainty. Those born the old way live in their own districts, remnants of a past slowly fading from view.</p><p>Grace is in her final year at a Center, her life steady, structured, and meticulously guided by AI-assisted human caretakers. She often lingers where her peers move on, asking questions the Center's curriculum considers settled. Yet she has never doubted her carefully engineered upbringing-until she is gifted a banned book that awakens a longing to see beyond the Center's walls.</p><p>On a school trip to Natural-Born District 1, Grace meets Tom, whose world is full of things she's only read about: families built on warmth and choice, streets overtaken by wild green, futures that aren't prewritten. Drawn to him and his different life, Grace begins bending rules-sneaking out, clashing with friends, deceiving caretakers-and starts to notice what her system quietly takes away.</p><p>When a charismatic minister drives a referendum to outlaw natural birth "for the children's sake," protests turn violent. And Grace discovers she is carrying a secret that puts everything-her bond with Tom, her future, her freedom-on a collision course with a system that has already made up its mind.</p><p>With days dwindling and the system tightening its grip, Grace must make a decision: protect the future she was raised for, or risk everything for one that no one else believes in.</p><p><i>Tense, intimate, and plausibly near, Birthright asks not only who gets to decide how we are made and shaped, but how much certainty we're willing to trade for choice.</i></p><p><b>If banning natural birth promised a better life for everyone-would you vote yes?</b></p><p>For readers of <i>Klara and the Sun</i>, <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i>, and <i>The Power, </i> who enjoy literary unease combined with page-turning force.</p>

• Birthright: A Near-Future Novel, (Paperback)
• Author: Mmb Publishing
• ISBN: 9783912376012
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-02-04
• Page Count: 266