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Neurolinguist Jean McClellan lives in a near future, or perhaps parallel present-day, America ruled by a right-wing theocracy. For a year, women and girls have been forced to wear electronic devices that monitor their speech, limiting them to 100 spoken words per day and enforcing the rules via electric shock. Those women who still work can only do so in manual labor positions, or—like Jean—abandon their careers to become obedient homemakers. When a crisis grants Jean an emergency dispensation to return to her former research treating aphasia, she seizes the opportunity to push back against the oppressive government but is forced to decide just how far she'll go to risk her fami...Log In or Sign Up to Read More