She and her personality-less daughter are on their way to seek refuge in ‘Femlandia’, a womyn-only community founded by Miranda’s (there’s her name) man-hating, feminist mother. Her debut novel, VOX, was published in August 2018 by Berkley (an imprint of Penguin Random House) and has been translated into twenty languages.

Our main character, the same lady who works in a fucking ZOO and specialises in animal communication, hears "coyotes" frequently while in Femlandia - it takes until she is pressed up against the chain link for her to put 1+1 together and realise that it's actually cages of feral boys all screaming and howling.

We got Win, the woman who had very extreme ideas and who had a daughter that fought her because of those ideals. This isn't the way I expected to spend my forty-first birthday, wondering what Emma and I will do from one day to the next, coming inches closer to painting a sign that says Will work for food.

Because there is a such a rich tradition of feminist utopias and dystopias, and because Dalcher spends a lot of time reminding us of how awful men can be—serious word of warning, there is a lot of rape and child abuse in this book—it took me a while to figure out why the work contained so many currents running the other way. It’s inside the colony that Miranda must figure out a way to save herself and everyone else from the Cult her mother created, or die trying.Our main character, Miranda, is unlikable as hell, and no one else fares any better in the popularity stakes, making it impossible to care what happens to anyone. It’s freaking disturbing, thought provoking, but also extremely frightening novel make you scream, giving you anxiety attacks! Shocking, provocative, subversive, FEMLANDIA is a fantasy of female empowerment that curdles into a nightmare. Christina Dalcher is a master story-teller and her books are engaging and well-written, keeping you hooked and engaged to the last page. Nick used to say that when humans get into deep shit, when the pain becomes so bright it burns, when every last part of everything seems to worsen with each second, people want their mothers.

Miranda and her teenage daughter Emma are fleeing the city with nothing but the clothes on their back and a few basic staples. Following a national economic collapse and the suicide of her tech-venture husband, Miranda Reynolds seeks shelter for herself and her teenage daughter in the one place she swore she’d never go: Femlandia, a woman-only separatist commune founded by her estranged mother, Win. So Miranda can never take these realizations to their obvious conclusions, and the book ends up feeling like a thematic soup that doesn’t know what it wants to say. Only she didn't say "patriarchy"-she pronounced each syllable with a pregnant pause in between; it came out like pay-tree-ar-key. The streets are already out of control, people are killing each other and they are afraid of taking their own lives.Miranda Reynold’s 20 years long husband Nick couldn’t choose the worst time to leave her and their sixteen years old daughter Emma behind by texting her he’s sorry, siphoning their savings and driving the Maserati coupe off the side of the mountain. So they reluctantly begin the journey to Femlandia - the women's only 'utopia' compound founded on the feminist principles by her estranged mother - where men are not allowed. Of course, this is not a utopian society and, before long, Miranda realises that things are very wrong indeed.

Femlandia is set in an alternate near future world when society has broken down and it’s chaos everywhere. Miranda's mother Win founded Femlandia before she passed away, and adopted daughter Jen now runs the place.Christina Dalcher’s latest dystopian feminist novel centers a popular locus of cultural and historical fascination: the women’s commune…Dalcher interweaves Miranda’s bitter, sharp storytelling with glimpses of Win’s life that trace a radical evolution to founding Femlandia. After a violent encounter, Miranda does the last thing she would have expected: she seeks sanctuary at Femlandia, the all-female colony established by her estranged mother. The way that men are portrayed and treated is very extreme in this novel and I felt uncomfortable about the clear attitude about the perimeters of how a ‘woman’ is identified.