Femlandia

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A master of the feminist dystopian novel…A no-holds-barred thriller and thought-provoking read for fans of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Naomi Alderman’s The Power, and Kim Liggett’s The Grace Year. I am a bookseller, I have the context of Dalcher's two previous novels and I am also currently enjoying a "Women of SFF Literature" year, in which 95% of the books I read are written by women of various backgrounds. 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. She specialized in the phonetics of sound change in Italian and British dialects and taught at universities in the United States, England, and the United Arab Emirates.

The community has huge electric barbed wire fences surrounding it but was this to keep people out or to keep the women inside?I also found it odd that in a book about feminism written in 2021 trans issues were glossed over so easily. I kept waiting for Miranda to have some kind of revelation, some kind of compromise or reconciliation with the women of Femlandia, but chapter after chapter kept hammering it home: Miranda is right, and her mother is wrong. Life outside the gates is fraught with danger, but there's something just as sinister going on within. Our main character, the same lady who works in a fucking ZOO and specialises in animal communication, hears "coyotes" frequently while in Femlandia - it takes until she is pressed up against the chain link for her to put 1+1 together and realise that it's actually cages of feral boys all screaming and howling. It could have been so much more but it was simply written and I felt that it missed a great opportunity to develop some of the characters in much more depth.

OBVIOUSLY NOT, and I really don't think that's a spoiler, although the exact ways in which this community has been corrupted are gradually revealed over the course of the novel. Never them, because we can't make men uncomfortable by talking about the patriarchy or anything like that.They are entirely self-sufficient and are cut off from the outside world, thus are not effected by the issues the wider that society is facing.