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Title: A Book About Surviving, Even With The Losses
Review: This tranquil novel has a delicacy and peacefulness in its tone and expression, yet underneath the simple sentences and serene language, is a tormented, turbulent novel.Set in Haiti, New York City, and Providence, Rhode Island, the female protagonist, Sophie, lives in perpetual sexual paranoia and is tormented by ancient ghosts of sexual intimidation. Quiet Sophie, gentle Sophie, she watches her mother, her aunt, her grandmother struggle as females in a patriachal society. She decides to torture her own body as a means of liberation, but does this really free her?For Feminist Literature, this sensible tale has a distinct tone of serious, dangerous struggle for survival, in spite of the loses. She will carry on the human chain, but there will be loses.
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