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Gather the daughters falls into the dystopian genre and the blurb gives enough information to outline the story. This is a visceral book on all levels and it is haunting me still julie cohen gather the daughters is an alwayscompelling and sometimesshocking read as the. Melamed leaves many questions unanswered, which contributes to the nightmarish and hazy quality of the narrative and the lives her characters live. Gather the daughters by jennie melamed is a handmaids taleesque future. Find books like gather the daughters from the worlds largest community of readers. Its perhaps not for the faint of heart, but will definitely appeal to fans of engrossing dystopian fiction that. Exactly what these girls lives are like are gradually unfolded and the full horror is exposed. Posts where someone is actually discussing a novel and even so much as wonders if there are similar books to it are immediately deleted by the mods who shout them down about posting on rsuggestmeabook instead. Goodreads members who liked gather the daughters also liked. I really enjoyed it and recommend you give it a try. An exceptional debut sunday telegraph obsessed with the handmaids tale. The customs and rules of her island become clear only gradually, so the truth of that world seems to blossom, horribly, in the readers mind. With its unforgettable image of redcloaked handmaidens, atwoods totalitarian vision of subjugated womanhood in gilead has become an instantly.
Gather the daughters international dublin literary award. Gather the daughters, a debut novel by jennie melamed, imagines a. There are aspects of it, especially the ordained fatherdaughter. The latest, troubling chapter in feminist dystopian fiction the. Gather the daug hters is told through the stories of the daughters themselves, and most of the book focuses primarily on four girls. Theres a reason there are so many books about witches, many more than the 100 in this list. Its a book thats unnerving and hard to pin down, but one that feels relevant right now a gripping cross between the handmaids tale and lord of the flies, but with elements of the paranoia of the hunger games too. A gruesome war results in the old gods departure from earth. And while gather the daughters may be a more speculative kind of dystopia, it made me think of religious cults and controlling fathers, and that somewhere in the world, there are girls and women who endure a similar reality.
It is life on an island with little in the way of modern conveniencesno indoor plumbing, no electricity, no weapons beyond knives and a limited. It is about a shy girl who decides to change the lives of those around her for the better while struggling with her own isolation. Jennie melameds gather the daughters bowled me over in more ways than one. Gather the daughters, jennie melameds debut novel, presents a world in which child abuse has been normalized, even sanctified, and in which the salutary pleasures available to girls and women are few and far between a world in which girls make a harrowingly quick journey from childhood to motherhood to death. Sometimes, a book seems to just capture the mood and gather the daughters feels like one of those books. Vanessa is the daughter of one of the wanderers, the men who enforce the rules and occasionally journey to the wasteland by a.
Books similar to daughters of nri the return of the earth. If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support. Gather the daughters is a haunting tale of a society where women are controlled but children are free, and a young woman on the cusp of that transition discovers something that pulls her ideological foundations out from under her. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read gather the daughters. Dark, unsettling and horribly compelling, gather the daughters is. Gather the daughters by jennie melamed, paperback barnes. Read gather the daughters shortlisted for the arthur c clarke award by jennie melamed available from rakuten kobo.
Gather the daughters by jennie melamed thriller books at. During her doctoral work at the university of washington, she. Gather the daughters is a fantastic novel that depicts the horrific and normalised life within a religious cult surviving at the end of the world. Gather the daughters ebook epubpdfprcmobiazw3 download. Gather the daughters is a dystopian fiction about recovering from abuse the michigan daily gather the daughters is a gorgeous dystopian debut novel signature reads 8 books you may have missed this summer but still have time to read realsimple the best new books to read this month best book club picks for june 2017. Gather the daughters by jennie melamed this was the august selection for instagrams salt water reads book club. Gather the daughters is told through the stories of the daughters themselves, and most of the book focuses primarily on four girls. This is a scary, heartwrenching and perhaps even hopeless examination of sex, religion, power and control. The only daughter of supermodel katia summers, witty and thoughtful lizzie summers likes to stick to the sidelines.
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May our daughters be like graceful pillars, carved to beautify a palace. About the author jennie melamed is a psychiatric nurse practitioner who specializes in working with traumatized children. Vanessa is the daughter of one of the wanderers, the men who enforce the rules and occasionally journey to the wasteland by a ferry to gather goods. It turned out to be one of my favorite books thus far in 2017. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Books similar to daughters of the stone daughters of the stone. It speaks of a world uncannily similar to our own, where women are. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of knowledge. Itd be easier to let my fivestar rating speak for itself and move on to books fresher in my mind, but i do not want my praises for. Jennie melameds debut novel gather the daughters explores the tensions within a small islandbased rural community in which traditional gender roles hold. Every month we gather to discuss the book over an original, threecourse meal with drink pairings inspired by the book. Ever wonder what its really like to grow up in manhattan with a famous mom or dad.
Childhood, comingofage, dystopian, fiction initially, its difficult to tell the time period in jennie melameds novel, gather the daughters. Buy gather the daughters by jennie melamed online from the works. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading gather the daughters. Buy this book melameds haunting and powerful debut blazes a fresh path in the tradition of classic. Books similar to gather the daug hters gather the daug hters. When someone suggested gather the daughters and compared it to the handmaids tale i was immediately interested. From writers like george orwell and octavia butler whose works prefigure atwoods to brand new dystopias like gather the daughters and.
Gather the daughters by jennie melamed publication date. It is like the handmaids tale in that is features a society that forces women into the role of breeders and normalises their subservience to men, however that is where the similarities end. For fans of speculative fiction looking for a book that can go toetotoe with the handmaids tale, margaret atwoods classic about female oppression and rebellion, look no further. The 10th anniversary trade paperback edition of daughters of the stone, includes a special note from the author, as well as a readers guide for educators and bookclubs. In gather the daughters, girls and women face a world that is brutal, insidious, and unjustand yet, hope and resilience persist. Gather the daughters is a darkly glittering novel about a radical. She cant see the point of the repetitiveness of it all, people living to create more people and then dying when. For example the goldfinch or the picture of dorian gray hope. Since it was first published in 1985 margaret atwoods seminal work of dystopian fiction, the handmaids tale, has become a global phenomenon, spawning an opera, a film and now an emmy awardwinning television series. Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. Looking for books with a cult feel to it kinda like gather the daughters. Jennie melameds chilling debut, gather the daughters, is the dazzling dystopian narrative you seek spanning a year in the lives of four girls, gather the daughters hurls readers deep. The only remnants of their existence lie in two girls. Jennie melamed is a psychiatric nurse practitioner who specialises in working with traumatised children.
I like horror books, horror movies, grimdark novels, all things dark and twisted. The latest, troubling chapter in feminist dystopian fiction. Gather the daughters is, in my opinion, a powerful and thoughtprovoking story which drew me in from the opening chapter. In their own way, the girls begin to resist their society.
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