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With its focus on the vitality of communication and human interactions, Dalcher’s tale is a fresh and terrifying contribution to the burgeoning subgenre about women-focused dystopias spearheaded by Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Book Review: Vox by Christina Dalcher (2.5 Stars) by Kathryn Poe Medium Write Sign In 500 Apologies, but something went wrong on our end. She is then offered a potential respite when government officials come to her for help after the president’s brother is diagnosed with the very condition for which she had been seeking a cure before women were forbidden to work. Vox is a dystopian novel set in the USA where the female population has been silenced to just 100 words a day. Jean’s marriage grows strained as her husband goes along with the new regime. Jean, a scientist whose research centered around a neurological condition that causes aphasia, is forced to watch in virtual silence as her three sons become indoctrinated and her six-year-old daughter tries to speak as little as possible. Author : Christina Dalcher Pages : 336 pages. taken over by religious extremists who have forced the female population to wear electroshock bracelets that deliver painful charges to any woman who speaks over 100 words a day. Christina Dalcher earned her doctorate in theoretical linguistics from Georgetown University. Jean McClellan and her family live in a U.S. Language and women’s facility with it are the focal points of linguist Dalcher’s chilling dystopian tale and first novel.
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