What the Body Remembers
Opis
Every so often a passionate and subversive feminist subtext surfaces in Shauna Singh Baldwin's astonishing first novel...The individual stories and complex religious and philosophical divisions are woven into the larger picture with supreme confidence and a poetic intensity. The characters shimmer with life, their predicaments grab the reader on the edge of the seat, their individual psychological journeys are instantly recognizable. Fear, violence, tenderness, and the burning desire to rebuild after the whirlwind has passed, the resonances and detail of domestic minutiae and the aftermath of a disastrous colonal retreat open up another world and yet offer a glimpse of humanity that is both intimate and universal...Shauna Singh Baldwin is her own master, and this book is an enthralling read