![]() ![]() Bad is exciting, unconventional, attentive, demanding, dominant and verbally, and eventually physically, abusive. The narrator tells, in a non-linear way, of her experience falling in love with, living with and then losing a woman she calls “Bad”. It seems to me that this story is partly a lament for what might have been and partly an attempt to come to terms with grief. So I read it a second time, putting aside my expectation that this was a story with a beginning, a middle and an end and let myself take it in as a sort of kaleidoscope of memories, lit by longing. I could see the shadows of huge, intense emotions swimming beneath and watched truisms flash in the light as, like me, they skimmed the surface but I wasn’t able to turn what I read into a narrative. ![]() I fell in love with the imagery and the language of this story as I was swept along in a tide of allegory that I didn’t understand. “Mothers” is a story the reader has to work at. ![]()
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