The Burning Season Wisdom Alison
The Burning Season Wisdom Alison This masterful novel combines readable, lyrical prose with a compelling plot and complex characters. . . . --Booklist (Starred Review)The acclaimed author of We Can…
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The Burning Season Wisdom Alison
This masterful novel combines readable, lyrical prose with a compelling plot and complex characters. . . . --Booklist (Starred Review)The acclaimed author of We Can Only Save Ourselves returns with an urgent and unsettling story that journeys into the heart of religious fanaticism and cult behavior as it probes one woman's struggle to define life on her own terms. Wisdom weaves these tangled threads with overarching themes of how the patriarchy controls women's minds and bodies.
Rosemary has often felt like trouble, and now at thirty-two, her marriage to her college sweetheart, Paul, is crumbling. "Here comes trouble," Rosemary's high school English teacher used to say whenever he saw her. In a last-ditch attempt to restore it, she agrees to give herself over to a newly formed Christian sect in central Texas, run by