Book Of The Month My Dark Vanessa

Last october oprah s book club chose my dark vanessa by kate elizabeth russell as its march pick positioning it to be one of the biggest debuts of the year.

Book of the month my dark vanessa. My dark vanessa is a dark deeply disturbing and unsettling novel that captures the zeitgeist of our contemporary realities of the metoo movement looking at the complexities and emotional repercussions of a love affair between a lonely schoolgirl anxious suffering the loss of her closest friend with self esteem issues desperate for attention with a much older manipulative and predatory male who zeroes in on her vulnerabilities. My dark vanessa is an exploration of the repercussions of a march december relationship between a teacher and his student. Oprah winfrey reversed her book club selection of kate elizabeth russell s my dark vanessa after it was briefly the subject of online controversy.

For the past month something s been gaining momentum a wave of women outing men as harassers assaulters. Kate elizabeth russell s debut novel my dark vanessa already the recipient of blurbs from a list novelists like gillian flynn and stephen king sold with a seven figure advance and all the. Return to the review of my dark vanessa.

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