Description
Eva Median Canada’s life is thrown into crisis when she is imprisoned for the baffling murder of her lover, forcing her to confront the memories and fantasies she has spent years trying to keep at bay. In a psychologically charged narrative, she circles the origins of her inability to love—shaped by brutality, sexual abuse, and the emotional silence that followed—while the mind’s evasions blur the line between what happened and what was endured. With language that moves like music and speaks in an oral, intimate idiom, Gayl Jones crafts a searing portrait of how race, class, and gender can become a “triple yoke” that tightens over a person’s choices and voice. Part courtroom tension, part interior reckoning, this novel explores trauma, survival, and the dangerous cost of fear—without offering easy answers.
Available Editions
paperback
Beacon Press
Published Jan 1, 1987
177 pages
ISBN: 9780807063194
paperback
Beacon Press
Published Jan 1, 1987
177 pages
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Details
First Published
1976
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Eva's Man by Gayl Jones.