Dystopia is not a horizon but a reality. But neither is it a matter of posing it narratively as avant-garde argument in a science fiction plot, nor of opening uchronies towards that more or less close world, with its fearsome parallel course lurking to intersect with ours.
When Joyce carol oates writes offers us that obscured glimpse so it shouldn't be at any level, even in the familiar. What we do not want to happen in the roulette of our lives. The most personal paradise, the utopia from the realization…, the opposite of this horizon sticks to our skin like the dystopia of annulment, of alienation, of the assumption of defeat that makes us pass as servile citizens. Always to the sound of suffocating double morals and general imaginary, even from within our own home ...
Synopsis
What should prevail: family loyalty or loyalty to the truth? Is it ever a mistake to tell the truth, is there a time when lying to family is justified? Can you do the right thing and be sorry for it all your life?
Informer stars Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who remembers her life after, at the age of twelve, she gave her testimony about the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older siblings and they separated her from her family.
In a succession of episodes remembered in an almost palpable way, Violet analyzes the circumstances of her life as the youngest of seven siblings, a girl in her beloved moment, who inadvertently "betrays" her siblings, leading to their arrest, their conviction. and to his own distancing.
This moving novel depicts a life of exile with respect to parents, siblings, and the Church that forces Violet to rebuild her own identity, to break the powerful spell of the family. A long exile as a "informer" to reach a transformed life.
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