January 2025 DABS Book Club Pick
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline HarpmanMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I'm struggling to put any thoughts together on this book. It is simultaneously introspective and harsh, angry and sad, yet elegant in its execution.
The novel's power lies in its refusal to provide clear answers to the myriad questions it raises. The unanswered questions are the point. The point of this unnamed human's life. The point of every life. They are the questions, the fundamental questions about the nature of life. Of identity. Of purpose.
This book is haunting. It's devastating in a way I didn't think would be devastating.
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