LikedI've read this twice now. I find that it's kind of a not a comfort read by any means, but if I'm in a really big slump, I can pick this up and just go, "Oh my god."
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The mirror in the wellMicheline Aharonian Marcom
The mirror in the well (2008)
Creators: Liked A woman's sexual awakening is a tragedy when the woman is married to someone other than the man who awakens her. But until then, her marriage, now doomed, was a sleepwalker's tragedy. This novel will shock and offend some readers. Unapologetically explicit in its language, extreme in some of the acts it catalogues, it makes no pretense of submission to middle-class decency, let alone to expectations of happy endings. All three people in this love triangle are flawed, damaged, human. Things fall apart, and the resolution is unclear. Why does she do it? Why should we read it? The answer is one word: Ecstasy.
- ISBN:
- 9781564785114
- Length:
- 137 pages
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