Written in the 1950s and discovered by family members years after
her death, Margaret Brown Kilik's shocking coming-of-age novel of
the emotional and sexual brutality of young women's lives in
wartime San Antonio deserves a place on the shelf alongside classic
novels like Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and Carson McCullers's The
Member of the Wedding. The Duchess of Angus reworks Kilik's unusual
personal history (her mother spent the 1930's running flophouse
hotels all over the United States, leaving Margaret to be brought
up by a host of relatives) into a riveting portrait of a young
woman navigating a conflicted and rapidly changing world, one in
which sex promises both freedom from convention and violent
subjection to men's will. Strikingly modern in its depiction of
protagonist Jane Davis and her gorgeous, unreadable friend Wade
Howell, The Duchess of Anguscovers some of the same emotional
territory as novels like Emma Cline's The Girls and Robyn
Wasserman's Girls on Fire. Includes an introduction by Jenny
Davidson and contextual essays by Laura Hernandez-Ehrisma and Char
Miller.
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