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3.98 AVERAGE
3.98 AVERAGE
dark
informative
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Schizophrenia/Psychosis
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
reflective
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
reflective
sad
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
this is really one of the saddest books i've ever read and yet i think i will continue to come back to it. it's a real gift. it's very special to me
Her language is my lagoon. I want to float around all day in it.
An account of "madness" like no other, Frame's is an exquisite work looking into the mind of Istina Mavet, a woman who is taken, who floats through wards with groups of women deemed hopeless, needing to change, and ultimately awaiting an end. Every word of Janet Frame's is purposefully included and every sentence and thought beautifully crafted. I'm keen to read more of her work and hope it is even half as accomplished as this.
Frame has heartbreakingly blurred the line between fiction and non-fiction. Through Istina she was able to create a record of her own fear and humiliation within this narrative. The culmination of these was the threat of the lobotomy. Istina’s terror seeps off the page as she contemplates the destruction of her sense of self and her desperation to save the person that she has become. The only light left in this book is that Istina, like Frame, may have managed to escape that fate.
challenging
dark
emotional
slow-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character