Mara Hvistendahl's "hard-hitting, eye-opening" exposé out now!

Mara Hvistendahl's UNNATURAL SELECTION: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men is now available from PublicAffairs. Says Stephen J. Dubnew, author of Freakonomics, "Yes, it's a rigorous exploration of the world's 'missing women,' but it's more than that too: an extraordinarily vivid look at the implications of the problem. Hvistendahl writes beautifully, with an eye for detail but also the big picture. She has a fierce intelligence but, more important, a fierce intellectual independence; she writes with a hard edge but no venom-rather, a cool and hard passion."