6/10/2023 0 Comments When she woke book review![]() ![]() Part of what’s disturbing about the world Jordan has created is that it’s not altogether unfamiliar, a world where faith is politics and Big Brother knows everything. ![]() This is the essence of Jordan’s novel-a modern-day twist on Hawthorne’s masterpiece that is both political commentary and literary thriller. Now, they were the color of newly shed blood … She hadn’t yet seen the mirrors, but she could feel them shimmering at the edges of her awareness, waiting to show her what she’d become. Instead of the letter “A” across her breast, Hannah now hosts scarlet skin.įor the twenty-six years she’d been alive, her hands had been a honey-toned pink, deepening to golden brown in the summertime. ![]() And that is her crime-the murder of her unborn child, an abortion. ![]() Unlike The Scarlett Letter’s Hester Prynne, who gives birth to a daughter conceived through an adulterous affair, Hannah does not. Chroming-the genetic altering of skin color to match the class of a crime-has, for the most part, replaced the prison system in the US. Not flushed, not sunburned, but the solid, declarative red of a stop sign.” In Hillary Jordan’s dystopian novel When She Woke, Hannah Payne is a Red, a criminal. ![]()
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