Status Updates From Possession

This one feels a tad slower than Uncle Paul, and the parental preening is unbearably boring.

We would simply sit back rejoicing at the prospect of our wayward Sarah’s reaping the fat benefits that accrue from marrying a man already broken-in to wedlock; a seasoned man, one hammered and tempered into acceptance of the fact that if he doesn’t pay the little woman’s rent, then she will, with all that this entails in terms of male subjection and tuna fish out of tins.

Primera novela que leo de Celia Feemlin y no decepciona. Se podria encuadrar dentro del "suspense doméstico" y no deja de ser una reflexión sobre la maternidad cuando vampiriza/posee de alguna forma a sus hijos, sobre las apariencias y de como se pretende que los hijos se conviertan en lo que ellas no fueron y de como los usan como sustitutivo a la soledad. La mirada aguda de esta escriitora me está encantando.

"As the evening went on, I began to feel uneasy. Was this to be the pattern of their married life -she acting the part of silly little girl in order to feed his mascuine vanity? Having, perhaps deliberatly, chosen a woman so much younger than himself, was he now determined to make sure that she was also sillier? "