![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s hard to know what to believe, a current of uncertainty that carries you through their parallel entries. War and religion also cast a shadow that blurs Roseanne’s recollections, an account sometimes corroborated, sometimes contradicted, by the official papers Dr. She hopes to produce “some kind of brittle and honest-minded history of myself,” but one that the passing of time can’t help but cloud. Before I finished it, I was indiscriminately recommending The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry’s entrancing 2008 novel that alternates between a 100-year-old woman’s clandestine reminiscence, hidden beneath the floorboards of her asylum bedroom, and the journal of her facility’s chief psychiatrist.Ĭonscious of her waning days, Roseanne Clear begins writing in the early 21st century, decades after the relevant events of her life. ![]()
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