ALL THE DAUGHTERS SING

Turn it off… and turn it on again.

One hundred numbered copies available in the summer of 2026.

Every day the news shows us war, poverty, and disease; people growing angrier and more frightened. Who taught us to believe this conflict is inevitable and even necessary to human life?

Turn it off… and turn it on again.

In 2054, First Nations engineering student Gena rises from her sickbed in Seattle to find that every other person and animal in Seattle has died. She struggles to survive alone until a dozen years later she inexplicably begins birthing peculiar daughters. The world has changed; the impossible has happened. Gena herself has become healthier and stronger. She lives another century and never sleeps again. By the time her daughters are themselves grandmothers, Gena knows she’s not alone. Ten other women in Asia, Africa, and the Americas share their own stories of peculiar daughters exactly like hers. They are curious, cooperative, & kind. 

In the tradition of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland, Jan Priddy dares to imagine a community of women. This radical future, All the Daughters Sing, steps away from what Ursula K. Le Guin warned is “the lazy, timorous habit of thinking that the way we live now is the only way people can live.” 

All the Daughters Sing by Jan Priddy
ISBN 979-8-234-11410-5
Publication Date: August 2026
Publisher: &PRIDE
100 copies only, published in Portland, Oregon
176 pages [note: *erratum]
Paperback, 6 x 8 in.

To order, send your address, $20.00 + $5 for US postage and packaging to Jan Priddy, P.O. Box 1442, Cannon Beach, OR 97110. You may pay via check or use Venmo (I am Jan-Priddy and you’ll see the &PRIDE logo. Email me for the other number you might need). Outside the U.S., please email me for a shipping estimate: andpride@gmail.com

In 2054, life on Earth resets itself.

*ERRATUM @ bottom of page 75. I have no explanation for the missing text and page number from page 75. After careful checking, I find thebpage is correct in the file I sent and correct in the digital proof they sent to me for my approval. I trusted that the text would appear in the printed copy as approved. I was wrong. I was offered 10% off my next publication; there won’t be a next.

“Yes, rumors? Songs.” She nodded and looked away. “It’s a puzzle. How can there be rumors? Yes, of course they all sing, and sometimes they sing of things I haven’t told them.” She chuckled and shook her head. “I don’t know how they know. I’m not sure they do know. But my daughters sing of mother-sisters across the world. Even before they … [see below]

Here’s the slip with the missing text—note the printer lost the page number too. Ah, well, the best laid plans..

Here I am packing for shipping the novel I began writing as a short story early in 2018. I have given some copies of ALL THE DAUGHTERS SING away to people who helped it happen and sold more. I stitched a leaf from favorite batik fabrics and attached it to a bookmark for each one. I likely won’t print more than this original numbered one hundred, but I’m not quite done…