![]() ![]() ![]() Nobody believes in anything else but joy.” As the book’s narrator, Elodie, declares early on, “Nobody, at the beginning, believes they will debase themselves for love. In her deliciously ardent new novel, “Cursed Bread,” men again take steps to proscribe women’s actions, but their restrictions are subordinate to women insistently exploring the transformative potential of desire - both carnal and emotional - even when it is realized by domination, submission, and surrender. The tender consideration lavished on her characters, especially the women and girls her novels revolve around, is immediately tangible, and yet their worlds, glimpsed as through a gauzy, fractured filter, quiver with unease.Īnd in every case, desire vies with constraint, with the latter largely motivating both her spectacular 2018 debut, “The Water Cure,” where three sisters grow up on an island with no men except for their father, who indoctrinates them in extreme methods of stifling their bodies’ energy and 2020′s “Blue Ticket,” where only women who win a lottery are permitted to become pregnant. Slipping into Sophie Mackintosh’s fiction is as comforting as it is disquieting. ![]()
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