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The Future

Naomi Alderman

Adult

Novel

Fiction

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About The Future

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Overview

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Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Part 1: “The Essential Problem”

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Part 2: “The Thing That Is Coming”

Part 2 The Future Part 2 Summary & Analysis

Part 3: “The Last Good Man in Sodom”

Part 3 The Future Part 3 Summary & Analysis

Part 4: “The Possibilities of Iteration or, Try, Try Again or, Keep Going, You’ll Get There in the End. Well. Either That, or The End Will Get You”

Part 4 The Future Part 4 Summary & Analysis

Part 5: “Nothing Is Ever Really Over”

Part 5 The Future Part 5 Summary & Analysis

Part 6: “How to Know for Sure

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