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Ahmed Gamal gemyde21 — my comments refer to an uncorrected advanced reading copy of When She Woke / Hilary Jordan, to be published early October 2011,,, Most of us of a certain age had to read some literary classics in high school. Most of these gave me cause to revolt, not because the books weren’t good or contained anything of value,’ just because they were assigned reading and a must. One that I can remember liking was Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. It’s themes of adultery, atonement, guilt were all appealing to my teenage self. So when I read that new book When She Woke was being compared to The Scarlet Letter, I was up for the read. I begged a copy of the galley from Michael Rockliff, Director, Library Sales and Marketing, Workman Publishing Company and he kindly obliged. If family and work had left me to my own devices I’m certain I could have read this in one sitting. I was immediately hooked by Hannah Payne’s story of a secret affair with a married man, one of cloth to boot. The resulting pregnancy leads to abortion and when found out, this good Christian community punishes its sinners by chroming, a method by which a virus is injected causing the skin to become a hue according to your crime. In the opening chapter we find twenty-six year old Hannah Payne as she awakes in a futuristic prison, a room with four walls and mirrors, where her every move is watched by cameras and where she begins her 30 day sentence as a Red. This imprisonment is only the beginning of a long sentence, 16 years with Red skin, shunned by society and forced to make her way as a scorned women. I really liked the beginning of When She Woke. There was much to explore about familial love and loyalty, religion, whose right it is to judge. I had trouble with some of the decisions Jordan made in carrying out her plot. Some things didn’t quite work for me. This is the prerogative of the author however, and who am I to say her choices were wrong. Jordan drew me back into the story in the end and I absolutely loved the closing line which I thought was perfect. Readers liking feminist fiction, those who were enraptured by Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale or The Scarlet Letter and who like an imaginative story that makes you think, should enjoy When She Woke. I can see it as a good book group choice as there is much to discuss and debate; perhaps some of those choices I allude to but don’t specifically mention.