Continuing with my updates, I have been so busy reading and attending author events. Last week I saw Chuck Klosterman talk about pop culture: Lady Gaga, LeBron James and soccer. His take on everything is hiliarious!
This week I am reading Cavedweller by one of my favorite authors, Dorothy Allison. The first book I read by her was Bastard Out of Carolina and it was extremely vivid and hearbreaking to read. The descriptions and the setting had a great impact on the life of young Ruth Anne "Bone" Boatwright. Of course I won't spoil the plot of the book but I will say this: child abuse is wrong.
I am half way through Cavedweller and I noticed some similiarities in the two books. Allsion stretches the importance and diversity of the mother-daughther relationship almost in the same way. Both books deal with the idea of domestic violence in a small town. Bastard Out of Carolina shows the unfair treatment Bone receives from her selfish mother who chooses her abusive husband over her own daughter. So far in Cavedweller, Delia's daughter Cissy feels unhappy about moving to Cayro and even neglected when Delia talks about reuniting with her other two daughters. I have a feeling the relationships among the women will continue to intensify as I kee turning the pages.
This reoccuring theme is fantastic because it inspires Dorothy Allsion to write how women intereact with each other and how they come to terms with their lives in past and present. She certainly has a knack for telling a beautiful story and setting reality back into perspective. That's one of the reasons I love reading non-fiction!
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