Her brother has anglicized himself by changing his name from Luis to Lewis. Connie’s father beat her, two of her three husbands beat her, her daughter’s pimp beats her. The woman who is on the edge of time is Consuelo (Connie) Ramos, a Mexican-American who lives in a New York barrio and has a life so dreadful that even as Piercy describes the poverty and the abuse in exquisite detail, I can’t really see it…though I bet any homeless person who lives on or under a freeway overpass could add more horrific details. Tepper, Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) by Marge Piercy, and The Fifth Sacred Thing (1993) by Starhawk. The novels are Gibbon’s Decline and Fall (1996) by Sheri S. I’m hoping that if you read them, too, you’ll inspired by their brave heras to keep on resisting. I’ve recently reread three novels that I think may be both prophetic and inspiring. I’ve heard that Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eight-Four is more popular than ever before. There’s a feeling that people are becoming less kind and that some men (following the model that lives and tweets in the White House when he’s not at one of his golf resorts) are more misogynistic. Members of this community (and others) have been feeling that the world is out of balance since the 2016 election.
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