Along for the ride is Lorenzo, Jean’s smoldering Italian colleague-and erstwhile lover. When the president’s influential older brother is in an accident and damages his Wernicke’s area-the part of the brain that controls language-Jean is temporarily called out of forced retirement (and silence) to resume work on a cure. Under Reverend Carl’s direction, women are no longer allowed to hold jobs or bank accounts, study biology or physics, or, most punishingly, to speak more than 100 words a day, read, or write.
Jean McClellan, wife and mother of four, is a cognitive linguist at the top of her field-or she was, until the government was hijacked by fundamentalists led by Reverend Carl, architect of the patriarchal Pure Movement and close adviser to the president.
In the not-too-distant future, American women and girls are allowed a quota of 100 spoken words per day, after which each syllable triggers electrocution via wrist band.
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