Chelsea Peppler’s Reviews > The Bog Wife > Status Update

“They had spent the decade of her absence growing around one another like roots in the same crowded patch of earth, contorting themselves so everyone could fit” I have never read a more appropriate metaphor that connects to the book title so well, while also being so deeply profound. The consequences of family that doesn’t break apart on their own is heartbreaking.

“She had understood that staying was a kind of annihilation worse than what any man at a bus station could have done to her.” On family 😩

This book should have been gay! The plot literally asks for it when the newest patriarch doesn’t find the bog wife. It would have been the perfect lead in!