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Feb 02, 2018m0mmyl00 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Future Home of the Living God is more Handmaid’s Tale than LaRose or Round House. While I liked it fine, it felt like a shadow of The Handmaid’s Tale. I liked the characters; Cedar Hawk Songmaker seemed genuine and genuinely confused, as well she should be. Her ultra-liberal adoptive parents were careful not to tell her what to think as she grew up, therefore she doesn’t really know what she thinks. But she has the will and courage to explore and seek answers. Her birth mother is simple and unremarkable on the surface, but she, too, is strong and principled. I would like to see these folks navigate circumstances I could relate to. In The Future Home of the Living God, though, evolution has started reversing itself. Babies are often — usually — not viable; and when they do thrive, they seem to be a genetic precursor to the humans of today. This is not a concept that stirs me to questions or provokes me to insights.