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Violence
None
No violence
Language
Barely any
Mild period-appropriate language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief references to marital intimacy; not explicit
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking in period-appropriate social contexts
Emotional Intensity
Some
The quiet tragedy of a woman whose inner life has been suppressed by convention; emotional isolation and unfulfilled longing
What this book is about
India Bridge is a conventional upper-middle-class Kansas City wife in the 1930s and 40s. In 117 brief episodes, Connell maps the contours of her life: her distance from her husband, her inability to connect with her children, her immersion in convention and propriety. The novel is a masterpiece of the unsaid — what India cannot express, cannot feel, or cannot permit herself to want is as present as what happens. Quietly devastating.
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Portrait of emotional repression and unfulfillment
Marital distance and loneliness
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