Reading this made me feel a lot like how I felt when I read 2001 A Space Odyssey. Endlessly perplexed, but driven to keep reading because I just wanted to understand. I didn't understand everything, but I think I understood something by the very end.

The way this is written is like a stream of consciousnesses, but it works oddly well. I never found myself bored and managed to sprint through the book in only a few days. This book is very bleak, but it never pretends that it's not. No one knows why there are 39 women locked away in a cage, and you won't know either.