A middle-aged woman wakes up and finds an invisible wall has been put up, a little ways outside where she is staying. This wall extends infinitely and everything beyond the wall is frozen in time. She finds no people living near her. She is terrified and thinks it might be some military experiment gone wrong. Then begins the tiring work of survival and self-renewal. Even with its minimal plot and little resolution, no chapters, and long descriptive paragraphs, its critique on capitalism and patriarchy are timeless. What does our world look like without time, our names, age, occupation, even our gender? It is haunting, where her isolation is jarring and painful to feel, yet her tender approach to caring for herself and her animals is beautiful.
–Javi, Third Place Books Ravenna, Seattle, WA
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