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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I recently finished the book as well. After seeing it mentioned all over BookTok, I felt compelled to read it. I didn’t love it!

I understand it to be a philosophical think piece, but it didn’t land for me. Sure, I had questions: Who? What? Where? Why? But from a psychological standpoint, and coming from someone who worksas a psych major and as someone who works in the field) everything else makes complete sense, especially when considering everything we know about the mind and psyche. 
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I didn't think the where, when, why mattered at all to the book. To me it was about what it means to create your identity and live your life and interpret your desires and find purpose without cultural influence or society or even company. [/quote]

This is a great synopsis. I finished it a couple of days ago. I'm not sure if I liked it, but it was successful in making me think. Questions like why go on living at all? Where does the protagonist's motivation to do so come from and does she ever truly accept that no one will ever come?

I was very disquieted by all the other bunkers and found it a little strange that none of the women voiced regret at not setting off earlier - they could have saved some of those people (my assumption was that the others died of starvation).

A fun literary exercise would be to invite authors to write short stories that expound on some of the unanswered questions in the book.

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I was left wondering something similar: what if the Child had set off herself, alone, and left the slower women behind? They had food and shelter there. Could ALL of the others have been found and saved? Could she have applied the same mathematical logic and found them all in quick succession?

Or, would things have turned into anarchy? Alone, the group had their own government of sorts, it’s even described in the book. [/quote]

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