Because let’s be honest, women are being silenced in many ways, even today. The reason I enjoy dystopian fiction is because it’s so interesting to see an author’s exploration of a “what-if” moment. With an interesting concept and lots of strong messages, Vox is an eye-opening dystopia set in a not-so-hard-to-believe future. For herself, her daughter, and for every woman silenced, Jean will reclaim her voice. Even more terrifyingly, young girls are no longer taught to read or write. But only if you’re a woman.Īlmost overnight, bank accounts are frozen, passports are taken away and seventy million women lose their jobs. Now the new government is in power, everything has changed. Any more, and a thousand volts of electricity will course through her veins. Published in 2018, Vox by Christina Dalcher follows Jean McClellan who spends her time in almost complete silence, limited to just one hundred words a day. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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