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Cautery
About this book
Fantasies, or are they premonitions, of a great wave, an impending apocalypse, threaten to swamp a young woman trapped in a slowly curdling relationship. From the outside it all looks good – the casually elegant apartment, the cocktail parties, the impressive, creative friends – but for all her supposed freedom, her unhappiness means she's not living up to her side of the bargain. Why, everyone asks, is this not enough?Four hundred years earlier, formidable, irascible Deborah Moody marries, is disappointed, is widowed, loses a child, loses everything, and flees England for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. She finds her fortune there, but if relying on a husband proved a mistake, independence doesn't mean freedom from the dangerous vanities of men.Funny, cutting, and a savage indictment of the cheap consolations of meme-ified faux feminism, misplaced solidarity, and sacrifices for the supposed greater good, Cautery offers us two women (one based on a historical figure, one imagined) who share a final vision of true happiness – burning it all down and beginning again.
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Table of contents
- Cautery
- 1. PLAÇA DE LES GLÒRIES (BEFORE)
- I. DEBORAH UNDERGROUND
- 2. CALLE DEL CALVARIO (NOW)
- II. DEBORAH & THE GREY TURTLE DOVE
- 3. PASEO DE LA CASTELLANA, 11 (NOW)
- III. DEBORAH & THE CAUTERY
- 4. CARRER DE L’ALMIRALL BARCELÓ (BEFORE)
- IV. DEBORAH & THE MERCURY
- 5. CALLE HERMOSILLA (NOW)
- V. DEBORAH & THE FEVER
- 6. PLAÇA DE JAUME SABARTÉS (BEFORE)
- VI. DEBORAH & THE BLACK MARBLE
- 7. CARRER NOU DE SANT CUGAT (BEFORE)
- VII. DEBORAH & THE WATER
- 8. CARRER DELS VALERO (BEFORE)
- VIII. DEBORAH & THE GLASS HOUSE
- 9. PLAÇA DE JAUME SABARTÉS (BEFORE)
- IX. DEBORAH & SALEM
- 10. CARRER DEL CARME (BEFORE)
- X. DEBORAH & ANNE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
- 11. TURÓ DE MONTEROLS (NOW)
- XI. DEBORAH, ANNE & THE WOMEN
- 12. PLAÇA DE JAUME SABARTÉS (BEFORE)
- XII. DEBORAH & THE THEREAFTER
- 13. CARRER DE SANTA TERESA (BEFORE)
- XIII. DEBORAH & THE GOLDEN ROOM
- 14. CARRER DEL JUDICI (BEFORE)
- XIV. DEBORAH & THE RIVER METAPHOR
- 15. PASEO DE LA CASTELLANA, 11 (NOW)
- XV. DEBORAH & MR COTTON
- 16. CARRER DE VERDI (BEFORE)
- XVI. DEBORAH & LOVE
- 17. PASSEIG DE L’EXPOSICIÓ (BEFORE)
- XVII. DEBORAH, MARGARET & THE WATER
- 18. PLAÇA DE LA VIRREINA (BEFORE)
- XVIII. DEBORAH & SUSANNA
- 19. PASEO DE LA CASTELLANA, 11 (NOW)
- XIX. DEBORAH, SUSANNA & THE TREES
- 20. PASEO DE LA CASTELLANA, 11 (NOW)
- XX. DEBORAH: AN ANIMAL FREEZES & THEN FLEES
- 21. CARRER DE PUIG D’OSSA (NOW)
- XXI. DEBORAH, THE CROSS & THE SQUARE
- EPILOGUE: DEBORAH ON PUIG D’OSSA STREET
- AUTHOR’S NOTE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- TRANSLATOR’S NOTE