You know within the first few pages there’s something not
quite right about Marta. She smokes but didn’t know she was a smoker, she’s on
medication for some sort of mental issue or at least she’s supposed to be but
she won’t take her pills, she remembers very little about her early life, and
she sees things that other people don’t see. You could put it down to her
controlling husband Hector or her meddling mother-in-law—she gives Marta a book
for a wedding present on how to be a good wife, or the fact that she suffers
terribly when her only child moves out and in with another woman. But that’s
not it either. The problem is that you can’t figure out if Marta’s crazy or if
the people around her are. And the author doesn’t say; she leaves it up to the
reader to figure out on their own.
If you are the type of reader who likes things tidied up at
the end and an explanation for what you just read then you probably don’t want
to read this book. But if you like to put your own spin on things then How to be a Good Wife is just the book
for you.
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