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The Year Seven
Book by Zanger, Molleen
197 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 1993
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About the author
Molleen Zwiker
9 books17 followersMolleen Zwiker (previously Molleen Zanger) was born in Panama and raised in Michigan. In the first grade, she wrote and illustrated her first short story on a length of coarse brown paper towel purloined from a roll in the girls’ restroom. Her grandmother saved that story, and Zwiker still has it, filed with everything she’s ever written. Almost everything. When she was 24, she began her first novel, a scathing feminist view of an inverted future where men are second-class citizens. Startled by the bitterness she read in her own work, Zwiker torched that manuscript. This she sorely regrets; there was a market for bitter, after all. Zwiker earned an MFA in Creative Writing, Playwriting, from Western Michigan University. Her most recent novel, Unreliable, was published in November 2012 by Scribe Publishing Company. Currently, she is working on a new novel tentatively titled The Art of Murder.
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July 23, 2008
post-apocalyptic lesbians having mutant babies while rebuilding civilization. really, really good. really, really funny.
June 15, 2016
A mystery disease takes most of the human race -- except for some women and the even fewer men. While it touches on the politics and the efforts needed to restore a semblance of society, this is a slice of life story of Vic. It follows her life post-event in finding others, her relationships, and her joining into her place in the new society.
The viewpoint is narrowed to the narrator, and of her concerns; not so much with the wider event, or even what is happening to those around her for whom she does not directly care. It focuses on her relationships and worries -- the women she loves, finding a new home, and finding new friends. It rings true, even if somewhat thinly sketched at times (in a short novel) of what someone's concerns may be within their new reality.
The viewpoint is narrowed to the narrator, and of her concerns; not so much with the wider event, or even what is happening to those around her for whom she does not directly care. It focuses on her relationships and worries -- the women she loves, finding a new home, and finding new friends. It rings true, even if somewhat thinly sketched at times (in a short novel) of what someone's concerns may be within their new reality.
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