by Joyce Carol Oates
This is an engrossing but unsettling psychological drama about an accomplished academic who begins to unravel after long-repressed memories from early childhood engulf her. Oates blends gothic horror with behind-the-scenes politics in the rarified world of an ivy league university. That she can so e...
"You don't have to understand why anything that has happened to you has happened nor do you even have to understand what it is that has happened. You have only to live with the remains."At the very end of this complex novel, M. R. makes this declaration to herself. I agree with the statement ("buc...
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