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erica_klein 's review for:
The Marsh King's Daughter
by Karen Dionne
This book combines outdoor survival, a genre I love (what to eat, how to find shelter, what will kill you) with a thriller suspense story about a woman who grew up in an isolated marsh, the child of a sociopathic kidnapper and his teenage victim. The story goes back and forth between the present, when the kidnapper escapes from prison, to the past including childhood in the marsh leading up to the escape when the protagonist is 12. The ecology is a marsh which is a bit different from other survival stories I've read. I didn't know you can eat cattails.
A good read although the protagonist's ambivalence toward her father and complicated if mostly absent feelings toward her mother are hard to absorb.
A good read although the protagonist's ambivalence toward her father and complicated if mostly absent feelings toward her mother are hard to absorb.