Woman on the Edge of Time

from Citizenjoyce

Connie's ultimate crime is that she is poor and powerless, a woman and a member of an ethnic minority. People with a great deal or very little power sometimes use her as an example, sometimes harm her for their own enjoyment or to gain some little benefit for themselves but most of all she is ign...

from olliesmith160

Piercy presents us with multiple worlds of utopia and dystopia which are both disorientating and fascinating to the reader. A really important feminist utopian novel which explores some key issues not only of its time, but of times before and after it. The unlikely heroine of the book 'travels' b...

from tloeffler

Connie Ramos is a thirty-something Chicano New Yorker who is institutionalized by her niece's pimp because she smashed him in the face (deservedly) with a frying pan. She is perfectly sane, but in the maddeningly primitive mental institutions of the 1970s, nothing she can do will prove this. Con...

from vpfluke

I only read this book, and then only partially was to see how the location of this story, or rather the town in the future was a similar town to the one I spent my high school years, namely Mattapoisett, Massachusetts. So, I skipped 7 chapters and landed on chapter 8 where Mattapoisett figures pr...

from dbsovereign

Brutal, frightening and intense, this book is a tough slog only because it's so bleak. Gut wrenching descriptions of mental institutions and of people being abused in them. Is she really seeing into the future or is it just part of her disease? Don't we all crave some glimmering of hope at our mo...