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Surrogate Colony

“A stunning debut by a bold new writer whose vision of the future conjures the near-impossibility of affection, with women tossed homicidally into surrogate birthing centers and men groomed to become, yes, eunuchs.Or if you will, think Brave New World meets The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Boshra Rasti’s dystopia redeems itself when two young characters conceive of a daring off-grid survival among a group of elusive scientists.

The author’s mature and compelling voice is not afraid to lift the scrim, but beware, for when she does lift the scrim, readers may recognize a society whose angers and horrors and violent fetishism may seem all too familiar. Surrogate Colony is a must read.”

Dan Gutstein

Author of Buildings without Murders

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Poet and short-story writer Boshra Rasti’s SURROGATE COLONY is a solid first novel with an intriguing pandemic-related premise that fleshes out an alternate reality. It is also a sensitively drawn love story in a world where love beyond social strictures is no longer safe.(Click to see review)

Ellen Graham for IndieReader

The Author

Boshra Rasti-Ghalati is an Iranian-Canadian expatriate, writer and educator.

She currently lives in Qatar as a teacher.

She is the author of several published poems, “Connection in the City”, a poem about the city of Surrey, BC, Canada, as well as the author of “In the Chrysalis”, a poem about the COVID-19 pandemic, published in Together…Apart, an anthology of creative works published by HBKU Press.

Her short stories have been published by Grattan Street Press, Literally Stories, and South Florida Poetry Journal.

Boshra draws inspiration from the teenage mind, one she may not have fully outgrown.

She also is an avid runner who enjoys the self-torture of running in Qatar.

She has other eclectic interests such as making vegan ice cream.

She may or may not use a pen name in the future to prevent a life-long tendency that people have of butchering her name.

She hopes to someday make her home somewhere that doesn’t include burning up due to the consequences of global warming.

“Boshra Rasti’s sweeping dystopian drama follows two young protagonists on a journey of survival and redemption.

Set in a post-pandemic world, Surrogate Colony explores the human psyche after trauma and what can happen when we succumb to fear.

While Ms. Rasti’s writing is filled with vivid imagery and edge-of-your-seat action, it is also the bond between Adriana and Zach that anchors this story firmly in the reader’s mind.”

Katherine Day

Grattan Street Press