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Chargement... The Bread the Devil Knead (édition 2021)par Lisa Allen-Agostini (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Bread the Devil Knead par Lisa Allen-Agostini
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Not a book I'd have thought to buy, but it came with some flour I'd ordered as a present, oddly enough. Not sure what to make of it really, except that I kept going in and out of believing in the characters and particularly Alethea, the main character. The subjects dealt with are tough, rape, child rape, domestic abuse and violence, and Alethea's path through life surprising, maybe realistic, maybe not - it was a distracting feeling to engage with her and then find myself drifting away. A more generous review (not mine) here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4597875927 Not much of a plot, felt like not a lot happened. Really cool voice to read, sometimes lacking emotion. Very difficult to read at times, with its descriptions of traumatic things-- definitely read trigger warnings. Felt like Alethea's development at times was a bit 'all of a sudden', can appreciate what the story was trying to do. It was an important story that didn't pull any punches, but I wasn't very absorbed into it and connecting to the characters. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. Fashionable, feisty and fiercely independent, she manages a boutique in Port of Spain, but behind closed doors she's covering up bruises from her abusive partner and seeking solace in an affair with her boss. When she witnesses a woman murdered by a jealous lover, the reality of her own future comes a little too close to home. Bringing us her truth in an arresting, unsparing Trinidadian voice, Alethea unravels memories repressed since childhood and begins to understand the person she has become. Her next step is to decide the woman she wants to be. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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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 ( )