A review by fearandtrembling
Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton

3.0

Psychologically astute with a tinge of melodrama in the manner of that other Wharton novella I have issues with, Ethan Frome. Besides that it's a bleak, chilling look at poverty and aloneness--there's no romance or whimsy about that here--and what happens when real life doesn't live up to the promises of moral ideals or religious conviction. Forgotten women, discarded women, people barely scraping by in the margins of society.