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The Fatherhood Mandate
- Narrated by: Tyler Boruff
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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The Fatherhood Mandate
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Summary
What happens when becoming a father is no longer a choice?
Sam Maxwell is looking forward to graduating from college. After breaking up with his on-again, off-again girlfriend for good, his life is suddenly derailed by a summons to Family Court. Wisconsin's pro-birth laws declare him the biological father of an embryo, which has been appointed a ward of the state.
Struggling with the sudden loss of his athletic scholarship, friends, and freedom after being placed under house arrest, Sam fights to keep his sense of self as his stubborn partner tries to force her own agenda. When a bad decision crosses the line set by the court, the angry young man faces devastating criminal charges . . . for a child that may not be his.
Will he find a path through this autocratic nightmare before his life is derailed forever?
Set in 2028, The Fatherhood Mandate is a captivating and dark dystopian novel that explores the mind-bending question of what bodily autonomy means to our society.
A must-listen for fans of The Marriage Act. Buy it today!
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- Kirsty Barrett
- 23-04-24
Excllent
Very relevant for the times. This hit close to home, told from the male characters perspective but still highly relevant. This could well be a foretelling rather than fiction. I think it should be mandatory reading. Excellent work.
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- PJ Stewart
- 27-04-24
An Essential Audiobook for Our TImes
A book for our tumultuous times, speculative fiction that ponders an authoritarian, dystopic future. Would things be different if men had to share the consequences of an unplanned pregnancy in a state where voluntarily ending a pregnancy is illegal? Would it be different if they were not allowed to travel out of state, go to a bar, have their interactions watched, their electronic devices? Being forced by law to go through hours of a tens machine birthing simulation and hours of parenting/ relationship classes?
Zack and Rily broke up. Riley was chaos, a self-absorbed, materialistic rich kid, a spoilt daughter of a deeply religious mother. Zack was about to start college on a tennis scholarship at his dream school, it was just a matter of all the pieces falling into place
Despite breaking up, Zack and Riley hooked up again when he came home in the summer, Riley told Zack throughout she was on the pill, but could no longer take it because she couldn't get pregnant. She didn't like condoms. She was always in the mood and wild in bed. This was Zacks kryptonite that he could not resist and did not insist on using protection
The book opens with Riley desperately trying to get back together with Zack, after breaking up with him again, but this time, Zack is done, he won't get back together, he is starting a new life in fall at college, but her words resonate with him, "things have changed"
Until one day, when out with friends, Zacks mother calls him, demanding he comes home immediately, furious, catatonic. Zack's mother Wendy attends the same church as Riley's mom and is hyer-focussed on reputation and face, so any strange visitors have the curtains twitching. Zack gets home to see an official in the house, with a manilla envelope. Riley is incarcerated, because she is 7 weeks pregnant and his life and all of his plans are about to crumble to dust
The book is so well written, it explores both sides of the debate, the impact on families, the communities and the individual freedoms and rights and social interactions. No matter which side of the debate you are on, this book is applicable to both, to take a breath and see the different scenarios, ramificiations and impacts.
The interplay between each individual character is so well thought out and I found myself gripped right to the end, waiting for the final outcome and the DNA test, which was not what I was expecting at all.
The narration by Tyler Boruff was perfection. Matching every little nunce and personality, engaging and consistent
I cannot recommend this audiobook enough
Thank you to Storyorigin for this incredible ALC. My review is left voluntarily and all opinions are my own
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