01711cam a2200301 4500 507674741 TxAuBib 20210730120000.0 201229s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780374601744 hc. $27.00 0374601747 hc. $27.00 TxAuBib Murphy, Sara Flannery. Girl one [BOOK] : a novel / Sara Flannery Murphy. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. 358 p. ; 24 cm. Josephine Morrow is Girl One, the first of nine "Miracle Babies" conceived without male DNA, raised on an experimental commune known as the Homestead. When a suspicious fire destroys the commune and claims the lives of two of the Homesteaders, the remaining Girls and their Mothers scatter across the United States and lose touch. Years later, Margaret Morrow goes missing, and Josie sets off on a desperate road trip, tracking down her estranged sisters who seem to hold the keys to her mother's disappearance. Tracing the clues Margaret left behind, Josie joins forces with the other Girls, facing down those who seek to eradicate their very existence while uncovering secrets about their origins and unlocking devastating abilities they never knew they had. 20210730. Fertilization in vitro, Human Fiction. Feminism Fiction. Estranged families Fiction. Sisters Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Science fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Mystery fiction.