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A review by solitary
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
3.0
3.5 stars*
harpman managed to make both my heart and my brain ache with that last sentence. i immediately went to reddit for answers after reading and this comment by oldlampshades perfectly summarizes everything:
”it’s a story of a human with so much of her humanity stolen from her, yet she still finds herself asking the most fundamentally human questions: why am i here? what does it all mean? it’s a story about how even when born into a society so different from any that exists now, humans will always find love, hope, and wonder.”
it’s both genius and cruel not to give us answers just as the narrator never was
harpman managed to make both my heart and my brain ache with that last sentence. i immediately went to reddit for answers after reading and this comment by oldlampshades perfectly summarizes everything:
”it’s a story of a human with so much of her humanity stolen from her, yet she still finds herself asking the most fundamentally human questions: why am i here? what does it all mean? it’s a story about how even when born into a society so different from any that exists now, humans will always find love, hope, and wonder.”
it’s both genius and cruel not to give us answers just as the narrator never was