I Who Have Never Known Men

I Who Have Never Known MenUrsula K. LeGuin meets The Road in a post apocalyptic modern classic of female friendship and intimacy. Deep underground, thirty nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girlthe fortieth prisonersits alone and outcast in the

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