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“The females in Dalcher’s electrifying debut are permitted to speak just 100 words a day—and that’s especially difficult for the novel’s protagonist, Jean, a neurolinguist. A futurist thriller that feels uncomfortably plausible.
— O, The Oprah Magazine
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In Christina Dalcher’s Vox, women are only allowed to speak 100 words a day. Sounds pretty sci-fi, but the real-life parallels will make you shiver.
— Cosmopolitan “Vox is a real page-turner that will appeal to people with big imaginations.
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Fittingly, this book about women being silenced has got everybody talking and calling it The Handmaid's Tale for 2018.
— Bustle
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VOX is intelligent, suspenseful, provocative, and intensely disturbing—everything a great novel should be.
— Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author
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Chilling and gripping—a real page-turner.
— Karen Cleveland, New York Times bestselling author of Need to Know
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A bold, brilliant, and unforgettable debut.
— Alice Feeney, author of Sometimes I Lie
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With language crystalline and gleaming, and a narrative that really moves, Christina Dalcher both cautions and captivates. The names that come to mind are Margaret Atwood, George Orwell, and Aldous Huxley—had Orwell and Huxley had a taste of the information age. VOX is a book for the dystopic present. It woke me up.
— Melissa Broder, author of The Pisces
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[A] provocative debut...Dalcher’s novel carries an undeniably powerful message.
— Publishers Weekly
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A petrifying re-imagining of The Handmaid's Tale in the present and a timely reminder of the power and importance of language.
— Marta Bausells, ELLE UK
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This book will blow your mind. The Handmaid’s Tale meets Only Ever Yours meets The Power.
— Nina Pottell, Prima
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“Narrator Julia Whelan brings this realistic, thought-provoking debut to life with heart. She is the voice of Dr. Jean McClellan, once a renowned scientist, now a mostly mute, angry wife and mother who is looking for a way to reclaim her voice and personhood. Whelan expresses a range of emotions…[and] gives husband Patrick a meek voice peppered with endearments…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
— AudioFile
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“Intelligent, suspenseful, provocative, and intensely disturbing—everything a great novel should be.”
— Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author
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“Electrifying…A futurist thriller that feels uncomfortably plausible.”
— O, The Oprah Magazine
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“The real-life parallels will make you shiver.”
— Cosmopolitan
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“Vox highlights the urgency of movements like #MeToo, but also of the basic importance of language.”
— Vanity Fair
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“Has got everybody talking and calling it The Handmaid’s Tale for 2018.”
— Bustle