I am a bookseller, I have the context of Dalcher's two previous novels and I am also currently enjoying a "Women of SFF Literature" year, in which 95% of the books I read are written by women of various backgrounds. The colony (or commune, or cult) established by Miranda’s mother Win and her protege Jen is not all rainbows and butterflies.

I had so many issues with this which I’ll relate to you, whilst attempting to keep the vitriol from my voice. S.-based Brown-Forman Corporation acquired 45% of Finlandia Vodka Worldwide, with the state-owned Altia Group, a successor of Alko's production division, retaining 55% ownership. There was a bit of transphobia which I get was to make you not like a character but I was not comfortable reading it. Near future America is easily a frightening place in any imagination, and in Christina Dalcher’s third novel Femlandia, America in 2022 is a completely broken, lawless society. There aren’t many options for them, other than to go to the one place Miranda had sworn off from years ago—Femlandia, the women only commune her mother Win had established before the world broke, a community that is ‘Women Oriented.

Miranda; a middle-aged and middle-class white woman, and Emma; her one-dimensional teenage daughter, decide they've had enough of living in a dystopia and walk to their nearest Femlandia, which plot convenience would have it was founded by Miranda's mother, Win. These included “Happy feelings at the awakening of Finnish Spring”, “A Scandinavian Choral March” and even “Impromptu”.

The ad series evokes a sense of the past through grainy photos and personalities speaking about their past lives. It isn't only the loose kaftans and colorful fabrics that mark them as different from the women I'm accustomed to; it isn't anything they have or wear at all, but rather what they don't have. The penultimate hymn-like section is particularly familiar and soon after it was published the Finlandia Hymn was performed with various words as far afield as the USA. She and her personality-less daughter are on their way to seek refuge in ‘Femlandia’, a womyn-only community founded by Miranda’s (there’s her name) man-hating, feminist mother. The distilled alcohol is then transported to a production facility in the village of Rajamäki in Nurmijärvi, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) north of Helsinki.This one time that the topic is raised is over in two paragraphs, and it ends unrivalled and unchallenged with; "They can identify as a fucking hedgehog for all I care. As with all her other books, Femlandia deeply disturbed me; not in a horror way, but in a reality way. In the clear: with a sleeker, see-through bottle, Finlandia vodka is poised to boost profile and sales".

Here, Sibelius intended to create a sense of a Finnish tonality without resorting to drawing from native folk music, as he wrote to his wife Aino at the time: “I would not wish to tell a lie in art. The school that he studied music at was renamed The Sibelius Academy, for many years his face was on Finnish money, and his birthday is celebrated every year as 'Finnish Music Day'.The most frustrating of these being the latter - the main character going from justifiably hating her husband, Nick, for abandoning her and leaving her in financial ruin, to daydreaming about aforementioned dead husband and how "he wasn't so bad" and "at least he looked after me".

Of course, this is not a utopian society and, before long, Miranda realises that things are very wrong indeed. Imagine a self contained separatist feminist socialist group if you will, one that collectively hates all men, disregards trans women entirely, won’t even help hurt children if they are male, and somehow manages to produce only female babies. Miranda and Emma should urgently find a place to stay if they don’t want to starve to death or get killed in the middle of the street. This is because the stories are uninspired, repetitive, lazy and a whole bunch of other adjectives that I shall save for later use in this review.I did enjoy reading this book, but there were times that I got a little confused about what was happening. Yet what they find when they get there is so much worse than Miranda ever could have imagined and it turns even her own daughter against her. Wilhelm Juslin next to the glacial spring in the small Finnish village of Rajamäki in the Nurmijärvi parish. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose.