Book description
A series of violent happenings add to a young woman's conviction that she is going to be murdered
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A first-person novel published in 1974, this wry, low-key thriller, quietly shattering, slaloms through marriage and infidelity, prosperity and poverty, motherhood and neglect. I first came across The Shadow Knows shortly after it was published, turned the pages at speed, and in my head argued furiously with the protagonist all the way through. Re-reading it forty years later, I was still aghast, and just as mesmerized. I think itās safe to say the narratorās response to sexual violenceālike much else in this bookāwould be impossible to publish in the present; it is as revelatory about our moment as about theā¦
From Nancy's list on putting sexual assault in perspective.
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