![]() ![]() She has the love of her mother and father. On the surface her childhood looks idyllic. ![]() We still don't know her name but she's often referred to as Baby Madame. The narrator was born and lived in the hill country of Sri Lanka. She says how many mothers can sit back and judge her because she has committed an act so horrendous that other mothers are relieved because they have not failed in the way she has. "Motherhood is, if anything, the assumption of perfection". This book made me think about motherhood in ways I'd never have expected. That she will tell us her story but in her time, her words from the beginning, when she was the child and not yet the mother. However, she tells us that we only think we know her story and why she did what she did. She confesses to us how she has done the unthinkable, that she is the worst thing possible. ![]() The book begins with an unnamed woman sitting in her jail cell. I don't know if I just started paying more attention to book covers or if they have just gotten so much better but I've seen some fantastic covers recently. ![]()
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