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Men Are Terrible and Cannot Be Trusted

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

February 6, 2019 by KM Bezner 1 Comment

Ghost Wall is a story about Sylvie, a seventeen year old girl, dragged along on an Iron Age reenactment in northern England with her father, Bill. Bill’s enthusiasm for the Iron Age is a hobby; he isn’t traditionally educated in the subject, and jumps at the opportunity to join Professor Jim Slade and his students for what is essentially a two-week summer LARP. He brings his wife, Alison, and his daughter, Sylvie, along for the ride. It becomes obvious early in the novel that Bill […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: abuse, Anthropology, England, fable, feminism, Fiction, ghost wall, iron age, sarah moss

KM Bezner's CBR11 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: abuse, Anthropology, England, fable, feminism, Fiction, ghost wall, iron age, sarah moss ·
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Of course, that was the whole point of the re-enactment, that we ourselves became the ghosts…

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

January 19, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This a deeply haunted book in a very disturbing (but not explicit) manner. It’s a coming of age novel and it involves a teenage girl kind of maybe slowly learning that she might be Queer by watching an older woman be an older woman, treat her earnestly, treat her well, and care for her. So that’s the thematic pitch for this novel. The plot, however, involves a summer archeological/anthropological primitivism study where a group of college lecturers, students, and a family who’s just into it […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: ghost wall, sarah moss

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ghost wall, sarah moss ·
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