And the people you need to become who you are need to be able to hear you scream. It renders polite, protective silences completely futile, entirely absurd. After, she was freer, her contentment deeper in many ways, and her loyalties, concerns, and communication more intentional. But in truth, before, the silences she kept and the fears were their own captivity. Whatever you're imagining, multiply it.) unable to ever reclaim the relatively benign, content life she had before. Mireille emerges from 13 days of unimaginable, horrifying captivity (one captive woman, seven men. It's about a willingness to die and come back from the dead, to run and be brave enough to return. It's about the things she keeps quiet to protect those she most ferociously loves. It demands that you speak up.įor me, An Untamed State is about what a woman absorbs. Not about the book, but about a ton of things I'd been bottling up. Depending on who you are, you may need a trigger warning, a stiff drink, a shower when you're reading (and after). People will tell you this book about Haiti - about another lightning rod that divides asunder: class. People will tell you this book is about a kidnapping - about the life before for its heroine, Mireille, and about the life after.
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