When the company running her failing colony orders everyone offworld, seventy-year-old Ofelia quietly refuses to go — she has buried a lifetime here and will not spend her last years being managed. Alone and unexpectedly free, she finds she is not alone after all when the planet’s native people make contact and come to revere her as a “Nest Guardian.”
A rare science-fiction novel with an old woman at its heart: Hugo-nominated, and quietly radical about age, autonomy, and self-worth.
