Femlandia

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I found the timeline at the beginning to be quite confusing as Miranda has a tendency to reminisce about how things were a few weeks earlier and if only she’d acted sooner. The novel is done no favors by its use of very short chapters (four pages, on average), which is not too strange for a thriller but falls flat here. So, she and her daughter, Emma, had no choice but to move to a colony of only women, that Miranda’s mother, Win, founded years before.

I felt like it set the tone for the rest of the book which I did find in all honesty a bit harrowing.and that gruff dismissal of an entire segment of the population is indicative of how this book deals with any kind of nuance—it doesn't. Although this novel has some mixed reviews (as do her other stories) I might check out Christina Dalchers' previous two novels, as based on the strength of this one I think they would be worth a read. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). Very dark and maybe not the right sort of genre to read when our real world feels like we are living in a dystopian nightmare but ‘enjoyable’ nonetheless. Femlandia felt untidy by comparison; the writing was not as good, the characters were mostly undeveloped and behaved inconsistently, and the storyline itself did not have that feeling of solidity that characterizes Dalcher’s other books.

Set as the world banks collapse leaving society in shreds, Miranda and her teenage daughter Emma trek to Femlandia - a feminist commune set up by Miranda’s mother. As with all her other books, Femlandia deeply disturbed me; not in a horror way, but in a reality way. They are entirely self-sufficient and are cut off from the outside world, thus are not effected by the issues the wider that society is facing.i've already written far too many words in my little reviewing journal trying to figure out why i didn't love it, and now i've missed pub date, so you tell me. The story moves away from how Miranda can simply survive; she now needs to conform to the idea that all men and everything associated with men is evil. Miranda's mother Win founded Femlandia before she passed away, and adopted daughter Jen now runs the place. Our main character is forty-one-year-old Miranda Reynolds, mother of sixteen-year-old Emma and recently widowed. Christina Dalcher’s latest dystopian feminist novel centers a popular locus of cultural and historical fascination: the women’s commune…Dalcher interweaves Miranda’s bitter, sharp storytelling with glimpses of Win’s life that trace a radical evolution to founding Femlandia.

There are so many triggering subjects in this book which are hard to digest including extreme violence, rape, invest etc. Special thanks to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing for sharing this digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest thoughts.She and her personality-less daughter are on their way to seek refuge in ‘Femlandia’, a womyn-only community founded by Miranda’s (there’s her name) man-hating, feminist mother. For me ‘Femlandia’ was a strange read; on the one hand it describes a dark dystopia which I am usually drawn to but on the other it is a very difficult story to digest. After spending several years abroad, most recently in Sri Lanka, Dalcher and her husband now split their time between the American South and Andalucia, Spain.

I toss in a dystopian book every once in a while because of this - it feels so vividly real, like this could happen, and that scares the heck out of me. That was the best I could do, try to use Emma as my pawn, stir some pity in those cold eyes of the men.So Miranda can never take these realizations to their obvious conclusions, and the book ends up feeling like a thematic soup that doesn’t know what it wants to say. This novel looks at the lives of Win and Miranda, of issues surrounding motherhood, pregnancy and cults. Defo look for the trigger warnings because this is one of the grimmest, most disgusting books I've ever read. i liked the beginning of this very much—the tipping-point momentum of society breaking down, the shortages, the danger, the situational morality, miranda's friends, having resented her cushy life, turning their backs on her, along with every religious or social institution she approaches for help.