Femlandia

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But that would probably make more men mad with the author and you know, women live to serve, not to be annoying.

Gender dystopias and utopias are a long-standing thought experiment, and increasingly popular of late—worlds of only one gender, worlds where women (or men) are nearly extinct or second-class citizens. We should hit the road soon, Emma and I, to get a start before the crowds turn our local Safeway into a kind of organized human zoo. The marketing team will use the success of the previous book to promote this one in a similar fashion.

The streets are full of looting, robbing, and killing, and Miranda and Emma no longer have much choice—either starve and risk getting murdered, or find safety. I had so many issues with this which I’ll relate to you, whilst attempting to keep the vitriol from my voice. The most frustrating of these being the latter - the main character going from justifiably hating her husband, Nick, for abandoning her and leaving her in financial ruin, to daydreaming about aforementioned dead husband and how "he wasn't so bad" and "at least he looked after me". They curse for the fifth time on this early-May morning and push the pillow-topped Tempur-Pedic slab into the last remaining space while Emma and I watch from the porch. It's my bed, the one I shared with Nick for almost twenty years, a queen-sized mattress now in the hands of two burly men with tattoos and ponytails.

I'm tempted to squeeze Emma close to me, but it's too hot for hugging, as if Mother Nature herself is against even this small intimacy. The story is told by Miranda who along with her sixteen year old daughter Emma, is struggling to find food and survive.You want to know how people end up homeless, how anyone could turn away or shut a door or hang up a phone? Exploring that through the concept of Femlandia, acknowledging the many hurdles that would appear, could have made this book a super interesting and important read. From Vox, where the women of America are silenced, literally, to Master Class, where a child’s “IQ” determines their schooling and every advantage (or disadvantage), and now with Femlandia, where a woman and her daughter move into a women-only colony for safety but instead find more danger than they could imagine.

I cannot remember which because we never see it on screen, although that still doesn't stop it being mentioned every other chapter. Then we drove home, got to business for the first time as husband and wife, and cozied up on the sofa with popcorn in time to see my mother on the television. However, after losing her husband at the time that the world started breaking down Miranda was left to defend herself and her daughter and decided to take her daughter to Femlandia for protection.There were many flashbacks which made it a bit confusing occasionally but as a Linguistics graduate, I appreciated the fascinating bits about languages. The way that men are portrayed and treated is very extreme in this novel and I felt uncomfortable about the clear attitude about the perimeters of how a ‘woman’ is identified. However, I just don't want to give it more stars because I want people to know I don't want them to read this book just because they thought I saw redeeming qualities in it.

We initially meet Miranda and Emma as they are losing the last of their belongings and have nowhere to turn for survival. Christina Dalcher is an author that I was already familiar with after reading her novel, Vox, which was compared to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. The community has huge electric barbed wire fences surrounding it but was this to keep people out or to keep the women inside? and my personal favourite "We know the date - Black Wednesday, April 1st, the year of our Lord two thousand and something.We got Win, the woman who had very extreme ideas and who had a daughter that fought her because of those ideals. Her debut novel, VOX, was published in August 2018 by Berkley (an imprint of Penguin Random House) and has been translated into twenty languages. Miranda and Emma should urgently find a place to stay if they don’t want to starve to death or get killed in the middle of the street.