In this fluid, often witty novel set on a small rural island off the coast of Vancouver, five solitary women at different stages in life learn how to function alone as well as together. Canadian-Japanese Karen, who has left her lesbian lover of eight years, befriends Red, a young woman with an unknown background who cleans houses for three others--acrid Milly, divorced by her husband after a 20-year marriage; Henrietta, whose husband is institutionalized in Vancouver; and Miss James, an eccentric, elderly spinster. Birth, illness and death follow one another, uniting the five independent and incisively drawn protagonists. "All that time I was trying to teach you how to live alone and really take care of yourself, I was teaching myself, too," Henrietta tells Red. The resulting warmth is not saccharine but realistic, as Rule illuminates the vagaries and pain of abandonment and loss, and the fragile joy of new bonds.
Jane Rule Orden de los libros (cronológico)
Jane Vance Rule fue una escritora canadiense celebrada por sus novelas que exploraban temas lésbicos y su obra de no ficción. Estadounidense de nacimiento y canadiense por elección, las contribuciones literarias pioneras y el activismo de Rule se extendieron más allá de las fronteras. Su importancia radica en su valiente examen de la identidad y las relaciones lésbicas en una época en que tales narrativas rara vez se exploraban. Rule dejó una marca imborrable en la literatura canadiense, caracterizada por su voz distintiva y su compromiso inquebrantable de contar historias desde una perspectiva marginada.
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