The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Cedar Hawk is as disturbed as the rest of America around her.,She is pregnant. Cedar first feels compelled to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe living on the reservation, to understand both her and her babys origins. There are rumors of martial law, of Congress confining pregnant women. A chilling dystopian novel both provocative and prescient.