Jul 25, 2017 gather the daughters is a very ominous, disturbed and often times uncomfortable read. Jul 25, 2017 a new and horrifying world gather the daughters would not be the stunning book that it is without the bucolic, yet horrific society created by jennie melamed. Jennie melamed a smoldering debut about an insular community on an island at the end of the world. Borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and videos from thousands of public libraries worldwide.
Founded by the ancestors on an island off the coast of the wastelands, their followers live by a strict set of rules that most follow blindly. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of knowledge and history. Jennie melameds chilling debut, gather the daughters, is the dazzling dystopian narrative you seek. Jennie melameds debut novel gather the daughters explores the. In a dystopian world, daughters of a cult finally rebel against the strict rules and controlled breeding programs laid down by the ancestors. Gather the daughters is about a small community that lives with no electricity or modern conveniences on an island.
Gather the daughters by jennie melamed when the country became a wasteland, several men and their families colonized a coastal island where they built a fundamentalist society based on worshipping ancestors, controlling breeding, and restricting all knowledge of prior history of the unknown wastelands. These ancestors are saintlike founders who, according to tradition, fled the wider world to preserve the. It was compelling and beautiful and kept me needing more. First, let me say that jennie melamed has a knack for beautiful writing. Unfortunately, it was incredibly hard to tell them apart. While it was sick and twisted, gruesome at times and cringe worthy, jennie melamed wrote through the tough spots tastefully. The island she has created comes alive in your mind so easily with every description of the trees, the houses, the beach. Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, 10 men and their families colonized an island off the coast. Shortlisted for the arthur c clarke award by melamed, jennie isbn. Buy gather the daughters by jennie melamed from waterstones today. Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast.
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Centering around a cult with some fascinating, if problematic, views about women and the societal roles they should occupy, its a powerful story of courage, filled with identifiable characters who face unimaginable hardships. I have had a copy of this novel for some time now, but for some reason the subject matter kept me from picking it up. Gather the daughters audiobook jennie melamed audible. Trying urgently now to unravel the mysteries of the island and what lies beyond, before her own demise, she attempts to lead an uprising of the girls that may be their undoing. Gather the daughters by jennie melamed dickens does books. Gather the daughters by jennie melamed librarything. About the author jennie melamed is a psychiatric nurse practitioner who specializes in working with traumatized children.
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Gather the daughters by jennie melamed, 9781472241726, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Feb 27, 2017 gather the daughters by jennie melamed when the country became a wasteland, several men and their families colonized a coastal island where they built a fundamentalist society based on worshipping ancestors, controlling breeding, and restricting all knowledge of prior history of the unknown wastelands. Apr 03, 2020 now available gather the daughters by jennie melamed and epub now. At the end of one of such summer, one of the younger girls sees something she was never supposed to see. The official website for the book has launched see my website, and we linked your article from there. Gather the daughters, the debut novel of jennie melamed, examines the life and culture of a mysterious cult located on an island seemingly cut off from the rest of the world there are a good handful of novels out there on cults, but what i thought made this book unique was the fact that the characters were more or less aware of the fact that they were actually part of a cult. And it is at the end of one summer that little caitlin jacob sees something so horrifying, so contradictory to the laws of the island, that she must share it with the others. I do want to say up front that this book may have some triggers for people suffering and recovering from abuse. Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, 10 men.
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