A review by danywever
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

5.0

I was trying to remember who the writing reminded me of and it hit me in the end. Ondaatje's "gothic" I don't know whether it can be categorized as tropical gothic or diasporic gothic, but the sense of the tropic overtaking the mind, bound by the past and the mistakes of their ancestors, madness as a direct result of colonial conquest handed down through generations.