I'm reading the "Grace and Neil" section in Joan Chase's DURING THE REIGN OF THE QUEEN OF PERSIA, and oh boy, Neil is getting on my nerves!
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"And that word and some love showing in his eyes affects her."
#GraceandNeil #NYRBWomen24 #JoanChase When that arrow stays lodged deep inside despite the years of anger, infidelity, resentment, abuse, impasse.
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"They laugh and tell him he is impossible. ...
Hearing them far away and entertained, we move in closer to the lighted mirrored table. What right does he have to be here? To tell us what to do? We do what we want."
#JoanChase During The Reign of the Queen of Persia #GraceandNeil #NYRBWomen24
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1. Not loving Part 3, "Grace and Neil"- he's an entitled, selfish, self-pitying man-child.
2. Trying to read through the multi-level suffering, to "Aunt Elinor" and (hopefully) her NY adventures.
3. Loved Parts 1 and 2- about Gram and her 5 daughters.
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"In its evocative power, its understated skill, the vividness of its description, its noncosmopolitan setting....takes its place among several other recent works that are also concerned with the female matrix..." -Margaret Atwood, TNYTBR #JoanChase
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