![]() When we first meet Jean, she’s the mother of four children in the suburbs – three boys and a progressively quiet girl – still demonstrating her own domestic resistance. In response to the steady rise of women’s voices, and particularly the honesty and force of these voices throughout the #MeToo movement, Dalcher is asking: what if we were silenced? And how long would it necessarily take to be starved of language? They are kept in check by bracelets that deliver electric shocks if they step out of line, a nightmare dystopia for any woman who's ever been told to not get lippy by a man. Set in a present just like our own, with a president who enjoys being on television, women have been reduced to speaking just 100 words a day. In Vox, however, words matter and none can be wasted. Maybe a few thousand." She concludes that the words are "semantically vacuous", meaningless, throwaway. ![]() ![]() Late in Vox, Christina Dalcher's debut novel, the narrator reflects: "I don't know how many times I've said 'I could kill him' in my 40-odd years. ![]()
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