- 250 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
Explore a world on the edge of change through three epic stories spanning five hundred years of imagined history, unpacking systems of power and what we are capable of in the pursuit of freedom.
The story starts in The Philosopher's Wife. Deep in the North, a philosopher exiled for promoting his atheist work amidst a bloody religious war yearns to ignite a revolution, but his personal life has collapsed into chaos. What begins as a desperate attempt to cure his wife's animalistic behaviour erupts into a power struggle between the sexes, unleashing violent reckonings while the world outside hurtles towards an epoch-changing revolution.
Over twenty years later, The Scavenger's Daughter examines the true face of empire as Northern forces continue to march against the South, "liberating" all who stand in their way. In a landscape blown apart by war, we follow Jack and Ash, orphan soldiers belonging to the Black Swan army, trying to survive the camp, toxic masculinity, and each other until they can be free. When Jack returns to camp, his freedom having been bought for him by a mysterious philosopher, he believes his new life is just around the corner. But as rations wear thin and the king seizes the opium trails, the camp is thrown into chaos, putting everything Jack and Ash have knownâincluding Jack's first love, Sarahâat risk.
Centuries later, in Four Sisters, we meet Sarah again as a woman and former Madam who has survived death, the toppling of regimes, and centuries of war. When a mysterious plague breaks out, she is forced to relocate to a quarantined zone called "The Skirts" with four young girls who were orphaned by the women she once employed. But when a strange doctor arrives and discovers the girls are plague-positive, Sarah must decide whether to go ahead with an experimental treatment or none at all. As time itself begins to erode, this found family of women must face loss, love, and their individual struggles for power in a violent world.
For fans of Game of Thrones, The Handmaid's Tale, and The Mists of Avalon, The Empire is both foreign and shockingly familiar, leaving you asking, how did we get here, and where are we going?
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The Scavenger's Daughter
âThe Scavengerâs Daughterâ is a medieval torture device. It works oppositely to âThe Rackâ by forcing the body into an unnatural and extremely painful compression.Think fetal position taken to the extreme.
How to Read The Scavengerâs Daughter
The Play
A. I Come from My Mother
Table of contents
- Cover
- Epigraph
- The Birth of a New Age
- The Philosopherâs Wife
- The Rise Of The Black Swan
- The Scavengerâs Daughter
- What a Difference 259 Years Can Make . . . ?
- Four Sisters
- Afterword
- Schedule A: An Afterword by ted witzel and Leora Morris
- Producing The Empire by Alison Wong
- A Writerâs Note on Impossibility
- A Writerâs Note on Gratitude
- The Reader Edition, Theatrical Productions, Podcasts, and Online Archive
- The Museum
- Photo Gallery
- Production History
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Copyright