Mirna Z. (otherworldgirl) reviewed on
London in the early 1980s. Thirty-something Rachel is a single mother, a part time educator working with "problem" students, a commitment-phobe, a survivor of a traumatic childhood, and a sufferer from recurrent depression. She is also a remarkably self-possessed narrator, intelligent, observant and mordantly funny as she recounts events (including a sadomasochistic sexual relationship) that test the limits of her mental and physical endurance, plunge her to the depths of despair, and force her to take drastic action in order to achieve catharsis and closure of sorts. A brutally honest trip into female psyche.
