Tobias Carroll: On its most basic one, When She Woke is about its protagonist being forced to cast off the belief system in which she was raised and needing to find an alternative. And if you’re thinking that some of this - Hannah’s initials, the color red, the religious state - sounds a bit familiar, you’re not wrong: Jordan’s novel consciously takes Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter as its inspiration. Hannah has recently become “Chromed” - her skin synthetically dyed, in this case red - after having had an abortion. This was the case with Hillary Jordan’s When She Woke, which follows a young woman named Hannah Payne living in a near-future United States in which a totalitarian religious state has been established. And sometimes, the best analysis of a book can come through a detailed discussion of it. Discussion by Molly Templeton and Tobias Carroll
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