bkish's review against another edition
3.0
This is a very strange book and I think it is her memoir. Terese whose name is different in the last chapter maybe cause she married the man Casey who becomes her obsession. She is an indian woman tho not indian from India rather indigenous indian. She grows up somewhere not sure where and as a n adult with a young son they travel to USA. This is a book that focuses on her madness.
She is hospitalized for a brief period and this book covers that. She is by the end of this book the mother of 3 boys. When she is hospitalized she gets her diagnoses - PTSD and eating disorder and bipolar 2.
I should like this book given my interests and my background and I should like her as she is a woman trying to make it in the world. She does enter masters program thru Indian American Arts Institute (Ithink thats the name). The teacher of that program does the introduction on this book.
It is page after page of her sexual relationship to Casey who was her teacher in her undergrad program and who is a white man (she talks often about white men white people) and older. It is her obsession with him that defeats her well being and results in her hospitalization. This is what the reader reads her obsession with him and their relationship and her history with the first husband with whom she also had a son and the son was removed from her by the husband Vito.
This book is also about her relationship with her mother and background relationship with alcoholic father who probably sexually abused her.
I should have liked this book and her...
Judy
She is hospitalized for a brief period and this book covers that. She is by the end of this book the mother of 3 boys. When she is hospitalized she gets her diagnoses - PTSD and eating disorder and bipolar 2.
I should like this book given my interests and my background and I should like her as she is a woman trying to make it in the world. She does enter masters program thru Indian American Arts Institute (Ithink thats the name). The teacher of that program does the introduction on this book.
It is page after page of her sexual relationship to Casey who was her teacher in her undergrad program and who is a white man (she talks often about white men white people) and older. It is her obsession with him that defeats her well being and results in her hospitalization. This is what the reader reads her obsession with him and their relationship and her history with the first husband with whom she also had a son and the son was removed from her by the husband Vito.
This book is also about her relationship with her mother and background relationship with alcoholic father who probably sexually abused her.
I should have liked this book and her...
Judy
katrinky's review against another edition
3.0
Poetic and very hard to read. A frustrating and beautiful path through and with trauma, mental illness, and history. And love.
This is my book club pick for May, and I have about fifty out of 125 pages marked for discussion. A LOT to unpack.
This is my book club pick for May, and I have about fifty out of 125 pages marked for discussion. A LOT to unpack.
emilyhcox's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
3.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual violence, Child abuse, Sexual content, and Sexual assault
deborahplace's review against another edition
4.0
I'm not exactly sure what to say. Beautiful, but hard to read in many ways. Full of pain, dreamy stream of consciousness-like writing that sometimes left me lost or buzzing. This book was an endeavor, a punch in the gut.
djcthomas's review against another edition
3.0
Listened to the audiobook. I liked the book but not so much the narration so only three stars. Hard to get into the story when the narration isn’t the best. As I read some reviews of the print book I see that it’s stream of consciousness so maybe that’s why the narration was awkward. I found myself a bit lost at times. Sometimes the format makes all the difference.
sophia_r's review against another edition
i listened to the audiobook, did not love the narrator