The cleft
(Book)

"In the last years of his life, a contemplative old Roman senator embarks on what will likely be his last endeavour: to retell the history of human creation and reveal the little-known story of the Clefts, an ancient community of women living in an Edenic coastal wilderness. The Clefts have neither need nor knowledge of men; childbirth is controlled through the cycles of the moon, and they bear only female children. But with the unheralded birth of a strange, new child, a boy, the harmony of their community is suddenly thrown into jeopardy."--p. [2] of cover.