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"Connie Ramos is a poor, overweight, Chicana woman living in 1970s New York. Her husband has died and she lonely. Her only close relationship is with her niece, who is a prostitute. After Connie attacks her niece's abusive boyfriend, she is found insane and committed to a mental institution.
Connie believes that she can communicate with people living in the year 2137. The future society is idealistic and somewhat communal. People live in forests and farm the surrounding land, being careful not to harm the environment. There is no sexism, and even the pronouns "he/she" and "him/her" have been eliminated, being replaced with the gender-neutral "per". There is no pregnancy, and children have three parents. Both men and women are able to breast-feed the infants.
The doctors at the mental hospital decide to try an experimental brain surgery on Connie, who is terrified and plans to escape.
The reader is left to decide whether Connie's visits to the future are real or are a product of her own mind."
E. J. McDonald, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- thoughtful
Time/era of story
- 1960's-1970's
Internal struggle/realization?
Yes
Struggle over
- living in dreamworld
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Battle with a psychiatrist
Yes
Brain/Body disability?
- mental illness
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- unemployed
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- mentally ill
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Hispanic/Latinic
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- quite fatty
Main Adversary
Identity:
- society
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- an average amount
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 5 (an average amount)
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Forest?
Yes
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Farm/Ranch?
Yes
Farm/Ranch:
- farm
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
Unusual Style:
- a lot of flashback and forwards
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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