If the story has a moral (as opposed to having many or even a different one depending on who reads it) then I think it is about the inevitable destruction wrought by husbands on wives. Yet, in this story, only women have ribbons. The part of her that makes her who she is. You’ll have to decide for yourself what it means. Years pass and the only thing she withholds from her husband is the right to touch the green ribbon that is always tied around her throat. Stories can sense happiness and snuff it out like a candle.”), then a wife and a mother. She becomes first a lover, then a bride (“Brides”, she tells us, “never fare well in stories. She is a passionate woman, who chooses her boy at a party at the age of seventeen and then gives herself to him and teaches him how to use what he’s been given. Her stories are all about women and the things that happen to them, few of them good and they power her own story, which is a story and not a documentary and therefore holds meaning but does not always release it easily. Each is borne from the clouds separate, but once they have come together, there is no way to tell them apart.” “When you think about it, stories have this way of running together like raindrops in a pond. Stories that make you ask yourself what it tells us about the world that we all know these stories? Are they lessons? Warnings? Truths? Myths? Desires? Whatever they are, they persist and they have power.Īt one point the teller of the tale (who never shares her name and who says that she has been telling stories all her life, says: This is a story filled with other stories, stories that you will half-recognise and half be surprised by.
Its muscular form squirms in my imagination’s grasp, sleek and slick but with razor-sharp edges that slice and make me gasp with surprise.
“The Husband Stitch” showed me that stories are dangerous. So here’s my review of the first story (about thirty-five pages long). I can also see that I need to review it one story at a time. Now that I’ve read the first story in this collection and I can see that this is going to be a remarkable reading experience: challenging, engrossing and perhaps a little unnerving.
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