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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Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie
This is labeled as an epistolary novel, but that's not entirely right. There are entries that could not possibly have been written, fr...
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I read this book like thirty years ago (ack!) when I was in college, and I remembered liking it, and when my wife picked it as a classic-i...
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The cover text calls this something like "one of the most important novels" blah blah blah. It's not a novel, it's a disc...
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Not a novel, which ... well ... some of the events described in the book would stretch credulity in fiction. It's a book about the lie...
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