The author bio in the book says Ms. Gish "wants to creep you out." With this novel, she hasn't succeeded, at least in my case. It's not a bad novel, mind--it stands as a potent inversion of just about every part of "The Yellow Wallpaper" while addressing the same themes and agreeing violently. I don't think the narrator is particularly unreliable (though it's possible I'm wrong) but she--or possibly Ms. Gish--doesn't seem to be entirely aware of the destruction the entity she's treating with is doing; and the entity in the woods, the God of Outside in the novel's terms, is deeply destructive on both a social and individual level. Sure, the feminist rage here is absolutely justified, but destruction is destruction, and what happens in the novel doesn't even pretend to be about rebirth.
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The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
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