![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They were also recruited to join clubs that taught that women are “lesser” and not worthy of being heard. Boys, like Jean’s teenage son Steven, were encouraged to take AP Religious Studies, with a textbook that promoted wives’ complete obedience to their husbands. They gained key appointments to the courts. Soon Reverend Carl had the ear of the president and the legislature. To Reverend Carl and his acolytes, a return to traditional values was essential. Busy raising their three sons and one daughter, it hardly registered that Reverend Carl Cobin’s Pure Movement was taking hold across the country. Patrick, her husband, works in the White House. Jean was a cognitive linguist studying aphasia at a Washington D.C. What makes Christina Dalcher’s first novel, Vox, so creepy and prescient is how normal and relatable the main characters’ lives are-and how quickly their lives change once these government edicts are enacted. Their only purpose is to serve men as homemakers. They are not allowed to work outside the home. What’s more, women are not permitted to read books, or write, or use sign language. ![]() For each word beyond 100, the irremovable “bracelets” deliver a series of electric shocks that increase in intensity from painful to completely devastating. It’s the near future, and all women and girls across the United States are required to wear word counters that limit them to 100 words per day. ![]()
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