From Marge Piercy's own website:
With [protagonist
Connie Ramos] we experience the New York where Latinos live today without money
or hope of it; where food, cleanliness, order, and peacefulness are Sunday
luxuries; where life-force translates as violence. And with her we experience the
mental hospital where, held against her will, she is faceless, invisible to the
attendants, social workers, doctors…where whatever she says and does is
received and recorded as “aggression,” as “bad patient behavior,” until
suddenly she is valued at last as a potential subject for a frightening
neuro-electric experiment on which hundreds of monkeys have already been “used
up.”
Woman on the Edge of Time is at once a heightening of the novel of
realism and a brilliant prophetic fable. It is Marge Piercy’s triumph to take
us so wholly into the very being of a stranger that we come to perceive her
fate as inseparable from our own.
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