A review by kuruugaa
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

4.0

"Names were not just labels, they were also containers. 'Karen' was a leather bag--a gray one. Charis collected everything she didn't want and shoved it into this name, this leather bag, and tied it shut. She threw away as many of the old wounds and poisons as she could. She kept only the things about herself that she liked or needed. She did all of this all in her head because the events there are just as real as anywhere else."
This is basically what I did when I started coloring my hair red.