JULIA WHELAN
1) Vox
Author
Language
English
Description
Language and women's facility with it are the focal points of linguist Dalcher's chilling dystopian first novel. Jean McClellan and her family live in a U.S. taken over by religious extremists who have forced the female population to wear electroshock bracelets that deliver painful charges to any woman who speaks over 100 words a day. Jean, a scientist whose research centered around a neurological condition that causes aphasia, is forced to watch...