Description
A young woman marries into privilege, only to find that the promise of escape is shadowed by coercion, grief, and the slow erosion of her own identity. When tragedy strikes, her sense of self fractures under the controlling forces surrounding her, turning domestic life into a psychological battleground. In parallel, a troubled mother flees an abusive husband to a haunting island, where parenthood unfolds through fear, endurance, and the numbing drift of alcohol. With Joy Williams’s stark, visionary intensity and David Paradela López’s evocative sensibility, the novel explores themes of power, survival, and the body’s—and mind’s—capacity to endure what love and violence can do.
Available Editions
hardcover
Tin House Books
Published Apr 10, 2018
336 pages
ISBN: 9781941040898
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First Published
1978
Language
eng
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