I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman
‘For a very long time, the days went by, each just like the day before, then I began to think, and everything changed’ Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.
Publication Year: 2019
This was one of those books that I read and proceeded to think about days after I finished. Even the premise of the book is fascinating because a book in which you have so little information about the setting and back stories of the characters shouldn't be ~this~ interesting. All in all, this is a book that's strange in the best way possible--begging the reader to think about the implications of every piece of information that is (and is not) provided. While Harpman wrote the book, your imagination drives the story and its meaning, making this book a truly unique read.
2This is a weird one. I'm not really enjoying the book, it feels sort of hopeless and also pointless? I'm sad, and I don't like it
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