The title refers to a sign the main character sees near the beginning of the book. Cedar is heading to see her birth mother who had recently contacted her. She is pregnant and wants to get information from her about her family medical history and find out why she was put up for adoption. Meanwhile, something strange is happening in the world and people, especially scientists, are trying to figure it out. Evolution appears to be going backwards but nobody knows why and scientists aren't sure.Pregnant women are being rounded up and kept against their wills. If their babies are successfully born, they are taken from the women. Cedar must try to evade the authorities. At the same time, she is trying to get to know her birth family and navigate her relationship with her adopted parents.
It was a good book and I would recommend it to others who like fiction but it wasn't quite what I was expecting. I was hoping for more about how evolution was going backward and how society was breaking down. In some ways I found it similar to Station Eleven because the dystopia is more of a background than the focus.
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