This novel is often compared to The Handmaid's Tale. True, it's the same white feminist speculative fiction, portraying a terrible unthinkable dystopia where white women are terribly oppressed by... having their own agency stripped from them (while being well cared about). So scary, so unbelievable, I cannot even imagine how people could deny other people agency. I mean, this never happened with white people before.
Needless to say, there are no people of color, no non-binary folks, no queer relationships. Everybody not fitting into white women-men dichotomy have simply vanished at some point of the history, and nobody noticed or deemed it deserving to be mentioned even in passing.

That being said, as opposed to The Handmaid's Tale, this novel has some plot which is interesting on its own; and the speculative fiction part is implemented with quite original setup with linguists and aliens (not going to write any spoilers there). Not quite believable, but as a fiction novel it is quite good.