{"id":14942,"date":"2012-02-14T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=14942"},"modified":"2012-02-03T10:46:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T16:46:30","slug":"when-she-woke-by-hillary-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/when-she-woke-by-hillary-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"When She Woke by Hillary Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Hillary Jordan’s novel When She Woke<\/a><\/strong><\/em> is often described as a new dystopian take on The Scarlet Letter<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0It is set in a future where an epidemic has left the majority of women sterile and abortion has been made illegal to prevent a declining population.\u00a0 Prisons are also wildly overcrowded, so to remedy this,\u00a0criminals who aren’t considered dangerous to society are not locked up but are instead “melachromed”: their skin is dyed so that their crime is instantly recognizable to the population.<\/p>\n

The novel’s main character, Hannah Payne, is a very religious young woman who broke the law by having an abortion in order to protect the baby’s father, world-famous Reverend Aidan Dale.\u00a0 Hannah is\u00a0caught and tried, and she wakes\u00a0up a the beginning of the novel with scarlet red skin.\u00a0 The book flashes back to how she ended up in this position and how she deals with entering society as a an outcast due to the color of her skin and the nature of her crime.<\/p>\n

This book was very compelling, so much so that\u00a0I found it a little painful to have to put it down at times.\u00a0 It’s a very interesting take on a futuristic society; it’s unique, but not so out-there that you can never imagine it happening.\u00a0 This might even be a fun pick for a book club because its controversial nature could bring up some very lively discussion!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hillary Jordan’s novel When She Woke is often described as a new dystopian take on The Scarlet Letter.\u00a0\u00a0It is set in a future where an epidemic has left the majority of women sterile and abortion has been made illegal to prevent a declining population.\u00a0 Prisons are also wildly overcrowded, so[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[445,523,1856],"class_list":["post-14942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-crime-fiction","tag-drama","tag-future-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-3T0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14942"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15052,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14942\/revisions\/15052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}