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Book Review of I Who Have Never Known Men

I Who Have Never Known Men
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It is a short, dystopian story that is a beautiful, harrowing tale about life, grief, and humanity. This tale will stick with me for a long time.
In a bunker underground, thirty-nine women and one young girl go through day to day life not knowing how they got there. The women have vague memories of a past left behind but the girl only knows of the bunker. Days go by and the only telling of other life are the men who guard them. They come and go but never speak. Then on a day like any other, their world as they know it flips upside down and they are left in a different type of prison.
Filled with hope, despair, love, and anguish. It is a small story that packs a great big punch.