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By Maria Espinosa

An excessive mental novel, this booklet specializes in a tender woman’s dependence on her husband and her makes an attempt to forge an self sustaining lifestyles for herself. Rosa, a frail, delicate American Jew residing in Paris, marries an alcoholic expatriate from Chile and unearths herself trapped in a sadomasochistic dating. Amid a chain of fast-moving events—the beginning in their daughter, relocating to Rosa’s mom and dad’ domestic after which to Sausalito, California, and numerous sexual encounters—this narrative explores Antonio’s fears and screw ups in addition to Rosa’s implicit belief in him to direct her existence. finally, Rosa starts off to question her dating along with her husband and her parents.

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