5/21/2023 0 Comments Property by valerie martin![]() ![]() She's a solipsistic young girl, self-pitying and arrogant, who would prefer nightly dinner parties among New Orleans society to the country life her husband has given her. Manon tells her story in an intimate monologue, forcing readers to see the world through her eyes and the view is not a pretty one. All while Manon herself remains childless. She has come to despise her husband because, in addition to being a humorless dullard, he has produced two children with Manon's own slave girl, Sarah. Manon Gaudet is a sugarcane planter's wife in the antebellum South. How does one elicit sympathy for an unlikable narrator? Her approach is a gutsy one: Don't try. In Property, Valerie Martin, author of Mary Reilly, has set herself a difficult task. ![]()
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