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Vox

By Christina Dalcher

Publisher: Berkley
Pages: 336

The females in Dalcher's electrifying debut are permitted to speak just 100 words a day—and that's especially difficult for the novel's protagonist, Jean, a neurolinguist. A futurist thriller that feels uncomfortably plausible.

— Claire Luchette

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