![]() So there is no Vox, but the novel is about voices: using them, not being able to use them, how to use them, and how the right to use them is so easily taken away. You may want to rebel, but you have to stop your 5-year old daughter from using language if she’s going to electrocute herself when she goes over her daily hundred. I was hoping for some time that it would be revealed as the name of the resistance to the fundamentalist US administration under whose rule women are restricted to 100 words a day, and are forced to police their own daughters. The title of this very good thriller is a little misleading: the word ‘Vox’ (Latin for the voice of, as in ‘vox populi’, the voice of the people), doesn’t appear anywhere in the novel. Update: Vox won the Goldsboro Glass Bell Award on 16 September 2019! ![]()
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