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Vox christina dalcher review5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() So, more than the content, I was actually studying the form how did she deal with flashbacks, how did she build the world, how did she interweave the now and the past? That to me was very insightful.” She went on to sum up exactly why I found Vox so disturbing – “I think that women especially will read VOX and think the horrible part is being limited to 100 words a day. You don’t need the whole context to appreciate the beautiful lyricism of her writing. Telling The Bookseller magazine “She writes scenes that almost stand alone, like little slices of a great whole. Originally written as a piece of flash fiction, Dalcher openly admits that Vox was inspired by Atwood’s modern classic. Vox by Christina Dalcher will draw obvious comparisons to The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood both set in a dystopian near-future America where women’s rights are stripped away. Jean McClellan, former leading neurolinguist, specialising in aphasia, the loss of language, is now restricted to speaking just 100 words a day. Today, on The Tattooed Book, I’m reviewing Vox by Christina Dalcher, published by HQ. ![]()
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