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In a first, I am putting down a book because the phrase “eating my placenta” was used too many times

Writing in here really oscillating between genuinely stunning and “ok sure Clarice”

Clarice Lispector is an oyster girlie

The way I GASPED at page 119...FLOORED

A non-exhaustive list of Clarice Lispector's interests:
- Caves
- Painting
- Fruit
- Gardens

The titular story was excellent, I could read a whole novel about Sara and her mom

"Neither genre offered me any kind of solace or escape. For women, mortal or divine, they only valorized absolute submission to the python coils of tradition and convention. According to them, my bones would be broken, and when I turned to mush, I would be swallowed whole, sentenced to picking up my husband's letters off the floor."

"I knew that I didn't need to die if Mrs. Roy did. My lungs returned to my body and breathed only for me. The valiant organ-child seceded and became a strange country inside her own skin."

“She had just wanted to know what it was like to brush up against the dazzling future again.”

The first story had my heart POUNDING

Dorothy Allison’s words are brilliant and devastating

“Fulfilling the promise to bear witness to every departure so the person leaving doesn’t feel their time has been wasted.”