Claire’s Reviews > The Secret Scripture > Status Update

Roseanne is in her 100th year and keeping a self-reflective journal, that little by little reveals the cuscumstance leading to her incarceration in a mental hospital since a young woman, and revelations of states of mind post-trauma; the shot boy, the accusation, the threat, her father's punishment, her mother's deterioration, the change of roles, loss or repression of memory.

"For history as far as I can see is not the arrangement of what happens, in sequence and in truth, but a fabulous arrangement of surmises and guesses held up as a banner against the assault of withering truth."