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A review by micareads123
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
5.0
I wasn’t sure what to expect going into this book, but what I got was a beautiful meditation on life, death, love and humanity filled with philosophical questions to unpack.
The story follows an unnamed narrator who spends her childhood in a bunker with 39 strange women. There is no information on why they are there or why they are together.
The reader then joins the narrator on her journey through life, feeling alien in a world stripped of all things that one would consider makes a human human.
I ended up really enjoying this and expect I will be thinking about it quite often from now on.
The story follows an unnamed narrator who spends her childhood in a bunker with 39 strange women. There is no information on why they are there or why they are together.
The reader then joins the narrator on her journey through life, feeling alien in a world stripped of all things that one would consider makes a human human.
I ended up really enjoying this and expect I will be thinking about it quite often from now on.