A woman flees her abusive Texas marriage, chasing family secrets and a fortune-teller’s warning across the South.
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A woman flees her abusive Texas marriage, chasing family secrets and a fortune-teller’s warning across the South.
Rose Mae Lolley is a fierce and dirty girl, long-suppressed under flowery skirts and bow-trimmed ballet flats. As "Mrs. Ro Grandee" she's trapped in a marriage that's thick with love and sick with abuse. Her true self has been bound in the chains of marital bliss in rural Texas, letting "Ro" make eggs, iron shirts, and take her punches. She seems doomed to spend the rest of her life battered outside by her husband and inside by her former self, until fate throws her in the path of an airport gy...
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Marital intimacy mixed with coercion in an abusive marriage
On-page domestic beatings and physical abuse throughout
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Religion shapes upbringing and marriage; saints motif recurs
No fantasy magic present
Airport tarot reading predicts murder and sparks the journey
Social themes on women’s limited options in abusive marriages
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Graphic sustained domestic violence; childhood and sexual abuse
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