Description
When M.R. Neukirchen becomes the first woman president of Princeton, she must master the relentless demands of fundraising, politics, and performance—until the pressures of her public life begin to fracture her private control. As a psychological horror unfolds on campus, her carefully buried history of a violent, abusive childhood resurfaces, turning routine institutional routines into a landscape of dread. Blending the intensity of a campus novel with the claustrophobia of trauma, the story explores how survival can warp memory, identity, and trust, and how power—both personal and institutional—can fail those it claims to protect. In Joyce Carol Oates’s stark, propulsive style, the novel asks what it costs to keep going when the past refuses to stay buried.
Available Editions
paperback
HarperCollins Publishers
Published Jan 1, 2012
736 pages
ISBN: 9780062107268
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Details
First Published
2012
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Mudwoman by Joyce Carol Oates.