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reissemyy 's review for:
Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom: A Story
by Sylvia Plath
dark
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
A color-drenched train ride takes our protagonist, Mary, north. As Vashti Bunyan sings: “Traveling north, traveling north to find you.” Mary doesn’t know what she’ll find—only that she has to leave. In this rediscovered early work, Plath imagines not a descent, but a detour: a girl who refuses the track laid before her. Mary is railing against determinism, and she takes the blue pill.