All of this happens over a period of just a few years, incredibly. At one point, Marina is imprisoned by a sadist, sexually enslaved and tortured. She joins a cult living in her family’s country estate. She disguises herself as a boy at another. Marina lives with a group of elderly astronomers at one point. Fitch seems to become restless as a writer, moving Marina from one terrible and bizarre situation to another. Fitch plunges Marina into the full consequences of the revolution, as she and her family lose everything and are driven to selling their family heirlooms on the black market in order to eat.īut as the revolution’s idealism rots, the novel begins to stray into stranger and stranger territory. Janet Fitch Your protagonist is your reader's portal into the story. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house. Janet Fitch We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know it's very fragmented. She doesn’t seem to realize, until it is too late, that a successful revolution would be devastating to her and her family. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.

She is lovestruck and idealistic and passionate and extraordinarily naive. By Janet Fitch SeptemWhen I was a teen, I remember poring through Jung, Freud, and Joseph Campbell, through Joyce and Miller and Kerouac, hoping to find myself on their famous pages. Marina’s teenage rebellion dovetails nicely with the revolutionary events swirling around her. There are just four trading days left until the United States hits its X day the ominous-sounding hard deadline for the government to raise the debt ceiling or risk defaulting on its. These details help the story come alive, and the novel starts strong.

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