No one, save a select group of men known as Wanderers, ever leaves the island. Each couple is only allowed two children, so the young women pray to give birth to sons rather than daughters who will live lives of horrible degradation.
Once a girl enters puberty, or ‘Fruition’, her sole purpose is to bear children. The one exception to this rule is childbirth. Women are second-class citizens, their every thought, word, and action controlled by men and aren’t even allowed to meet in groups without a man present as a chaperone. They form a fanatical religious group that revolves around ancestor worship. When society as we know it fails and most of the world disappears into a burning wasteland, ten men and their families flee to a desert island. As someone who has always been fascinated by cults, it was a natural choice for me to review. Centering around a cult with some fascinating, if problematic, views about women and the societal roles they should occupy, it’s a powerful story of courage, filled with identifiable characters who face unimaginable hardships.
|a Initial Bemis load m2btab.test019 in 2019.Dystopian novels are a dime a dozen these days, but Jennie Melamed’s début novel, Gather the Daughters, is anything but typical.
|a A smoldering debut about an insular community on an islandat the end of the world and the girls who start to question the rules that bind them. |a New York : |b Little, Brown and Company, |c 2017. |a Gather the daughters : |b a novel / |c Jennie Melamed.
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