Jean McClellan who is the leading neurolinguist in the country, are forced to stay at home where they “belong,” wearing “bracelets” that would electrocute them if they speak more than a hundred words per day!Īs much as it is abhorrent to even imagine living in a country where one gender’s rights are stripped bare, the nightmare doesn’t cease there in this story. So by the time this novel opens up, backed by extremist Reverend Carl and the far-right faction, women, including our protagonist Dr. Ever since purist Sam Myers pulled off the biggest upset in the US political history by winning the presidential election, women in America have been losing their rights. But I plan on reading it soon, hopefully before its sequel, The Testaments gets published), “Pure Movement” that conforms to the God above Man, Man above Woman social order has gained significant momentum in the US. In the dystopian novel Vox, which many have compared to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (I haven’t read The Handmaid’s Tale myself, so I don’t how justified these comparisons are.
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