TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carvalho,Maria Judite de
AU  - Costa,Margaret Jull
AU  - Zambreno,Kate
TI  - Empty wardrobes
SN  - 9781949641219
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - San Francisco, CA
PB  - Two Lines Press
KW  - Widows
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women
KW  - Portugal
KW  - Patriarchy
KW  - Novels
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Domestic fiction
N1  - Translation of: Os armários vazios; Originally published in Portuguese in 1966
N2  - For ten years Dora has ritualistically mourned her husband's death. Her beloved husband, a "Christ" so principled he rejected any ambition whatsoever as a construct of a corrupt society, succeeded only in leaving Dora and their daughter with nothing. When her mother-in-law reveals a shattering secret about their marriage one night, Dora's narrative of her own life is destroyed. Three generations of women--Dora, her daughter, and mother-in-law--must navigate a world that has been shaped by the blundering men off in the distance, figures barely present who nonetheless define the lives of the women they would call mother, wife, or lover; "Carvalho's tale of fading grief, new life, and quiet devastation lays bare the limitations of patriarchal love and the ambient savageries perched and waiting in its every crevice"--
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