A review by pastelhellion
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

Beautiful book. It took me a bit to get into it, but then I was hooked. The Child (narrator) feels so removed from her humanity, because she can not relate to her companions past lives as she was a child and can't remember the previous world. But as we travel with her through the world we see her humanity; her compassion, her respect for culture and the dead, her hope for knowledge and answers, her loneliness and despair. Beautiful.