I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

This is a book that you will think about long after you finish. Its pacing is deceptively slow, but before you know it you are at the end. How would anyone in this situation act? It’s amazing that I Who Have Never Known Men has been given new life and that Harpman is receiving another look. She was before her time. A haunting post-apocalyptic novel of female friendship and intimacy, it lingers in the mind in ways few books can.

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