Emma embraces the thriving settlement and its progressive culture, but Miranda finds troubling moral failings in the colony’s pioneering way of life. With nowhere else to go-and facing starvation or worse if attacked by roving gangs of thugs-Miranda reluctantly decides to take herself and Emma to Femlandia, a self-sufficient “womyn’s commune” her estranged mother founded decades earlier. Against a backdrop of failing infrastructure, looted grocery stores, and widespread death, Miranda Reynolds-whose husband recently abandoned her and her 16-year-old daughter, Emma-is homeless and hungry. In the near-future, America has fallen into chaos after the collapse of its economy. Dalcher ( Vox) puts a delightfully dark dystopian twist on Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1915 feminist utopian novel.
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