★ Trigger Warning: Mentions of suicide, assault, and death. “Why must a woman’s nature be such that a man has always to be the pivot of her life?” Bomal, pg. 226 María Luisa Bombal’s The Shrouded Woman absolutely broke my heart. When I had finished the book, I sat down for a second to just […]
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I enjoyed reading this book because, for the most part, it was the first I’ve read about a main character who was deceased and essentially reflected on her life. This book’s interesting aspect, in my opinion, is that we don’t lose sight of our main character’s perspective even after their death. Given that I knew […]
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The Shrouded Woman is centered around the perspective of a dead woman, who, though dead, still sees and hears her family and friends who come to her coffin, which plunges the woman into memories of her time spent with these people. The memories triggered by the sequential appearance of her daughter, her old nanny, her […]
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