Isabelle's Reviews > A Strange Woman

A poet’s observations turned into radical sometimes misguided applications of theory + A father’s black sea ramblings and oppressive expectations.

*I like the visual of the Black Sea being the run-off from Noah’s Ark.

It hurts to be misunderstood by a father, by a loved one, by friends:

All that restlessness, that throbbing heart of hers, her lack of love, that lack of love will do her in one day; she'll collapse facedown on some shore —it cuts me right to the quick-from lovelessness, it's the lovelessness that will be her undoing most of all, for she has said to me, "I loathe any favors that this system claims to bestow,"