Lisa Allen-Agostini
Autor(a) de The Bread the Devil Knead
About the Author
Obras de Lisa Allen-Agostini
I must make trouble for the nation 1 exemplar(es)
Something To Say 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent (1992) — Contribuinte — 86 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1960s
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Local de nascimento
- Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago
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Resenhas
Listas
Prêmios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 6
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 245
- Popularidade
- #92,910
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 16
I think it's hard to put my thoughts together about this. It's a cavalcade of trauma and abuse and then it just ends so... neatly? Like, not that the scars are resolved obviously. But it feels weird - although even saying that feels wrong, as if I'm suggesting that actually the trauma should have carried on, which is also not what I meant.
I think part of it is that the neat ending owes very little to the actions of the main character in the "present day" - there's connections formed in childhood that only just come back around all at once and we only see bits and pieces of how they happened and
I think the explicit child sexual abuse scene really threw me for a loop and eclipsed everything else about the book. Not suggesting it's wrong to portray it, just it was so intense (even though I had to skim it) that I couldn't really get settled about how I feel about the book due to feeling so upset and lost reading that.
I will say as an obvious unalloyed good thing: the Trinidadian Creole writing style is really good and I loved reading it. It's an incredibly readable book that's quite compelling… (mais)