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Wide Sargasso Sea

★★★★☆  book

Wide Sargasso Sea

The specter confined to Jane Eyre’s attic claims her own narrative: a Creole heiress unmade by an incurious English husband and a world invested in her systematic erasure. The villainess redeemed at last.

what it left me with

The epithet ‘madness’ often merely obscures the true narrative: a woman progressively divested of autonomy and then excoriated for the fracture that must follow.

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