They must go to Femlandia, the women-only commune started by Miranda’s late mother, Win. Emma is the teenage daughter of the book’s protagonist, Miranda as the pair roam the deserted Virginia-area landscape looking for refuge, they realize that two women alone in this apocalyptic world will never survive with the constant threat of rape, murder, and starvation. In Femlandia, Christine Dalcher’s new work of gender-based dystopian fiction, this assault is the instigating event of the novel: In a world ravaged by a fictional (but eerily, easily imaginable) Great Depression of 2022, cisgender men’s violence has only increased in the mayhem. They’ve become something unhuman, primal.” They aren’t even laughing anymore, and they aren’t speaking. “Emma’s screams have turned to sobs, throaty, mournful heaves as the men egg each other on.
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