![]() The women free themselves with keys left, by chance, in the lock. ![]() She proves her value as the timekeeper, telling time by counting her heartbeats, and mirrors the passing years as she matures from a child to a woman. With no attachment to the past, the girl feels like an outsider. The women share fleeting memories of a time before they don’t know why they were imprisoned, or where they are. In the beginning, the girl is caged with thirty-nine women in a bleak underground bunker, tended by men guards with a boundless supply of food, water, and electricity. Jacqueline Harpman’s I Who Have Never Known Men is a brilliant, spare science fiction novel in which a curious girl asks what remains after everything has been stripped away. ![]()
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