![]() ![]() ![]() And Jean worries how this will affect her daughter Sonia’s development, since Sonia is young enough that she may grow up never knowing a world without the word counters. This affects how she relates to everyone, particularly the men of her family-her husband, Patrick her children, including an older boy, Stephen. ![]() With only 100 words a day allowed to her and her young daughter, Jean must be judicious with her speech. It’s about two years after the word counters were introduced and women were kicked out of the workforce-Jean is just “Mrs. Jean McClellan is our first person narrator. Vox asks us to consider what it would be like if we used technology to literally silence women (at least in the United States).ĭr. I read the first few pages and, honestly, was kind of hooked by Christina Dalcher’s writing. So many mixed feelings about this one! The cover caught my eye while at Chapters shopping for books for my Dad. ![]()
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