Study for Obedience Bernstein Sarah
Study for Obedience Bernstein Sarah For readers of Shirley Jackson, Iain Reid, and Claire-Louise Bennett, a haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction.A woman…
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Study for Obedience Bernstein Sarah
For readers of Shirley Jackson, Iain Reid, and Claire-Louise Bennett, a haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction.A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. She notices that the local suspicion about newcomers in general seems to be directed particularly in her case. The youngest of many siblings--more than she cares to remember--from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion.Soon after she arrives, a series of unfortunate events occurs--collective bovine hysteria; the demise of an ewe and her nearly-born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; a potato blight.
What is clear is that she is being accused of wrongdoing, but in