Slow river by nicola griffith6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() She points to an attack in a bar when she was in her early twenties as the source of her long-standing rage regarding the narrative of women’s weakness: “I was beaten by two men and I learned the story that most women already knew: that men beat women for no other reason than they could, because they were raised on the story that women are weak. As someone living, even prior to diagnosis, in fear for her safety, she is always on guard against and mistrustful of others, especially men. An accomplished martial artist accustomed to a high degree of control over her body, Mara finds the prospect of being weak and unable to protect herself unthinkable. The sudden onset of a debilitating illness would be devastating for anyone, but Mara’s self identity is firmly formed around her view of herself as a strong person, physically and otherwise. Mara Tagarelli, the headstrong protagonist of Seattle writer Nicola Griffith’s fierce eighth novel, So Lucky, knows this all too well: in a matter of days her marriage ends, and she is felled by a diagnosis of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. ![]() ![]() Life, as the familiar expression goes, can turn on a dime. ![]()
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