Christina Dalcher earned her doctorate in theoretical
linguistics from Georgetown University. She specializes in the
phonetics of sound change in Italian and British dialects and has
taught at several universities.
Her short stories and flash fiction appear in more than one hundred
journals worldwide. Recognition includes first place for the Bath
Flash Award, nominations for the Pushcart Prize, and multiple other
awards. She lives in Norfolk, Virginia, with her husband.
PRAISE FOR VOX
“Christina Dalcher’s debut novel, set in a recognizable near
future and sure to beg comparisons to Margaret
Atwood’s dystopian The Handmaid’s Tale, asks: if the
number of words you could speak each day was suddenly and severely
limited, what would you do to be heard? A novel ripe for the era of
#MeToo, VOX (Berkley) presents an exaggerated scenario of
women lacking a voice: in the United States, they are subject to a
hundred-word limit per day (on average, a human utters about
16,000). Considering the threat of a society in which children like
the protagonist’s six-year-old daughter are deprived of
language, VOX highlights the urgency of movements like
#MeToo, but also of the basic importance of language.”—Vanity
Fair
“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.”—O, The Oprah Magazine
“In Christina Dalcher’s Vox, women are only allowed to speak 100
words a day. Sounds pretty sci-fi, but the real-life parallels will
make you shiver.”—Cosmopolitan
“Vox is a real page-turner that will appeal to people with big
imaginations.”—Refinery29
“Fittingly, this book about women being silenced has got everybody
talking and calling it The Handmaid's Tale for
2018.”—Bustle
“VOX is intelligent, suspenseful, provocative, and intensely
disturbing—everything a great novel should be.”—Lee Child, #1 New
York Times bestselling author
“Chilling and gripping—a real page-turner.”—Karen Cleveland, New
York Times bestselling author of Need to Know
“A bold, brilliant, and unforgettable debut.”—Alice Feeney, author
of Sometimes I Lie
“With language crystalline and gleaming, and a narrative that
really moves, Christina Dalcher both cautions and captivates. The
names that come to mind are Margaret Atwood, George Orwell, and
Aldous Huxley—had Orwell and Huxley had a taste of the information
age. VOX is a book for the dystopic present. It woke me
up.”—Melissa Broder, author of The Pisces
“[A] provocative debut...Dalcher’s novel carries an undeniably
powerful message.”—Publishers Weekly
“A petrifying re-imagining of The Handmaid's Tale in the present
and a timely reminder of the power and importance of
language.”—Marta Bausells, ELLE UK
“This book will blow your mind. The Handmaid’s Tale meets Only Ever
Yours meets The Power.”—Nina Pottell, Prima
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