Lavinia reviewed The Tattooed Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
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3 stars
What a strange and complex book! A young woman whose hands and body are covered with tattoos, a wealthy and reclusive writer who suffers from a degenerative nerve condition, a schizophrenic sister. The two faces of modern America, one affluent, sophisticated, the other poor, wild.
The story is constantly poised between hate and love. Justice (or I should say Nemesis) prevails at the end. A gripping and somehow depressing story.
The Tattooed Girl is Oates's 31st novel of about 90 other books.