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A country votes on banning natural birth-and one young woman stands in the crossfire. Europe, 2096. After the collapse of global birthrates, almost every child is now born in artificial wombs and brought up in state-run Centers designed to eliminate uncertainty. Those born and raised the old way live in their own districts, remnants of a past slowly fading from view. Grace is in her final year at a Center, her life steady, structured, and meticulously guided by AI-assisted human caretakers. She has always lingered where others move on, asking questions the Center's curriculum considers settled, without ever doubting her carefully engineered upbringing-until she is gifted a banned book that awakens a longing to see beyond the Center's walls. On a school trip to Natural-Born District 1, Grace meets Tom, whose unscripted life is full of things she's only read about: families built on warmth and choice, landscapes growing organically, futures that aren't prewritten. Drawn to him and his different world, Grace begins bending rules-sneaking out, clashing with friends, deceiving caretakers-and starts to notice what her system quietly takes away. When a charismatic minister drives a referendum to outlaw natural birth ""for the children's sake,"" protests turn violent, and Grace and Tom's bond collides with old wounds, a fragile new secret, and the cost of exposure. With days dwindling and the system tightening its grip, Grace must make a decision: protect the future she was raised for-or risk everything for a life that no one else believes in. Tense, intimate, and plausibly near, Birthright ultimately asks not only who gets to decide how we are made, but how much certainty we are willing to trade for choice. If banning natural birth promised a better life for everyone-would you vote yes? For readers who enjoyed the quiet unease of Klara and the Sun and the page-turning force of The Power.

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