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peace_love_on_planet_earth 's review for:
I Who Have Never Known Men
by Jacqueline Harpman
challenging
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This should’ve been a book you studied in school but of course it’s female centric so…
It’s left me a bit melancholy and it’s hard to sum up exactly how it’s made me feel. It’s incredibly thought provoking and if my brain worked better I would like to analyse it. There is no ‘happy’ ending and I can see how easy it would be for humanity to end up at this place. A parched earth with people locked in cages and luxury bunkers for the wealthy.
This also speaks to a yearning part of yourself, of never knowing where you came from, of not remembering your past and feeling it keenly. The narrator questions time and her existence of being real because by this point there are no other humans left, both interesting concepts. It explores death and removed the narrator is from human emotions, having not experienced the lives that the others did before captivity. She is the only one out for 39 women able to perform euthanasia on the others, perhaps because she doesn’t have any understanding of death as a whole or an afterlife.
This will stick with me for a long while.
It’s left me a bit melancholy and it’s hard to sum up exactly how it’s made me feel. It’s incredibly thought provoking and if my brain worked better I would like to analyse it. There is no ‘happy’ ending and I can see how easy it would be for humanity to end up at this place. A parched earth with people locked in cages and luxury bunkers for the wealthy.
This also speaks to a yearning part of yourself, of never knowing where you came from, of not remembering your past and feeling it keenly. The narrator questions time and her existence of being real because by this point there are no other humans left, both interesting concepts. It explores death and removed the narrator is from human emotions, having not experienced the lives that the others did before captivity. She is the only one out for 39 women able to perform euthanasia on the others, perhaps because she doesn’t have any understanding of death as a whole or an afterlife.
This will stick with me for a long while.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Terminal illness
Euthanasia