![]() ![]() I love dystopian novels so this sounded like it’d be a win for me but I actually have mixed feelings about the book. I thought that the premise of this novel was very interesting and I loved the concept but, when I was reading it, I couldn’t stop myself from comparing the book to Margaret Atwood’s masterpiece The Handmaid’s Tale. She specializes in the phonetics of sound change in Italian and British dialects and has taught at universities in the US, the UK, and the UAE. But this is not the end.įor herself, her daughter, and every woman silenced Jean will reclaim her voice.Ĭhristina Dalcher has a PhD in theoretical linguistics from Georgetown University. Before, the average person spoke sixteen thousand words a day, but now women only have one hundred to make themselves heard. ![]() Girls are no longer taught to read or write. Jean McClellan is in denial-this can’t happen here. Summary: On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed to speak more than 100 words daily, Dr. ![]() Genre: Science Fiction / Dystopian Fiction ![]()
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