Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Marge Piercy’s landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures-and what it takes to will one or the other into reality.
Not to mention its hero is a 37-year-old Chicana kick-ass mother and possible future science whiz, and that the book occasionally shifts into Spanish and back to English again. This is an amazing utopian novel offering intensely original (and sometimes even humorous) solutions to some of the most pressing problems we face: in particular, this book takes on capitalism, sexism, racism, homophobia, and urban planning, and imagines a future world in which we all choose our own names, have three self-aware and gender-varied "mothers," regularly communicate with animals (including our cranky cats), can take out the Mona Lisa on loan to hang in our room for a few weeks if we are willing to wait our turn, use a transit system based on bike-sharing, have grown up with a strong sense of our own self, and are socially mature, insightful, and self-directed in ways you never even thought about! Despite its imagining a future without New York City (!), I still love this Bible of What Might Be Possible If We Actually Fulfilled Our Human Potential.
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