EAN: 9780062899842

MY LIFE AS A RAT - JOYCE CAROL OATES KARTONIERT...

A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant. You think
your parents love you but is it you they love  or the child who is theirs? --Joyce Carol Oates
My Life as a RatWhich should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the
truth ever a mistake and is lying for one's family ever justified? Can one do the right thing 
but bitterly regret it?My Life as a Rat follows Violet Rue Kerrigan  a young woman who looks
back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony  at age twelve  concerning
what she knew to be the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older brothers. In a
succession of vividly recalled episodes Violet contemplates the circumstances of her life as
the initially beloved youngest child of seven Kerrigan children who inadvertently informs on
her brothers  setting into motion their arrests and convictions and her own long
estrangement.Arresting and poignant  My Life as a Rat traces a life of banishment from a
family-banishment from parents  siblings  and the Church-that forces Violet to discover her own
identity  to break the powerful spell of family  and to emerge from her long exile as a rat
into a transformed life.

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