![]() Whether you are reading Marge Piercy’s great work again or for the first time, it will remind you that we are creating the future with every choice we make.” -Gloria Steinem “This is one of those rare novels that leave us different people at the end than we were at the beginning. ![]() ![]() And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow. But Connie also bears witness to another potential outcome: a society of grotesque exploitation in which the barrier between person and commodity has finally been eroded. After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a time of sexual and racial equality, environmental purity, and unprecedented self-actualization. Once ambitious and proud, she has lost her child, her husband, her dignity-and now they want to take her sanity. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time speaks to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily than ever before.Ĭonnie Ramos is a Mexican American woman living on the streets of New York. Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Marge Piercy’s landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures-and what it takes to will one or the other into reality. ![]()
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