My Heart Hemmed In
"There is something very wrong with Nadia and her husband Ange, middle-aged provincial schoolteachers who slowly realize that they are despised by everyone around them. One day a savage wound appears in Ange's stomach, and as Nadia fights to save her husband's life their hideous neighbor Noget--a man everyone insists is a famous author--inexplicably imposes his care upon them. While Noget fattens them with ever richer foods, Nadia embarks on a nightmarish visit to her ex-husband and estranged son--is she abandoning Ange or revisiting old grievances in an attempt to save him?"--Amazon.com.
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This is a nightmarish book, and for a long while you can't tell if it's all allegory or if the main character is losing their sanity and going paranoid. It does a clever thing, where the victim slowly moves into an oppressor. Taunting us with how we all never seem to question our own goodness in the stories we inhabit. The suspense and the weirdness of it all is masterful. So well written, and so consistently uncomfortable to read.
