Happy Wednesday!
Welcome back to another episode of The 5 O'Clock Book Club! As you can see, we're reading a different book than the one we said we were going to this week (sorry). However, in honor of International Women's Day (earlier this week) aaaaand in honor of Demon Copperhead being a suuuper long book (original plan for this week), we decided to read I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacquelin Harpman.
Released in 1995, this book was way ahead of its time and very different than what either of us expected. I Who Have Never Known Men tells the story of an unnamed protagonist who was raised in a jail-cell-meets-underground-bunker with 39 other women. They have no idea where they are or why they are there and have long given up trying to answer these questions when suddenly, they get out. Strangely, release from this captivity creates more new questions than it does answers. At no point does this story go where you think it's going to.
You'll need a stiff drink to make it through our convoluted arguments on the various theories for this one.
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Next week (for real): Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Love ya,
-Em and SK <3
