Released
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
A yellowed newspaper clipping about a recently released prisoner who has saved a drowning boy triggers a wrenching journey into memory for middle-aged Ruth Callis, forcing her to confront the events of her past and, ultimately, her own act of forgiveness.
Customer Reviews
Unflinching and Honest
"Released" explores mental and physical abuse and its forms of captivity. Contrasting a girl's past experience as a member of a fundamentalist Christian cult to her later experience when trapped in a brutal relationship, the novel beautifully delves into themes of self-acceptance and self-ownership, religion vs. faith, reproductive freedoms, family, and forgiveness. The scenes are (appropriately) both brutal and tender; loving and savage. I enjoyed the recurring metaphor of the pulling of teeth - not for its beauty, but it's succinctness: before healing, there is pain. Unforgettable and cathartic.