Traumatic Repetition and Fresh Starts in “Lone Women” – Chicago Review of Books

Traumatic Repetition and Fresh Starts in “Lone Women” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] The Western, as a genre, is rife with horrific elements: its frequently alienating landscapes, its history of violence, and its strange and unrestrained collision of cultures. In Lone Women, Victor LaValle takes horrors both human and supernatural as his subject: a haunted vision of the American dream that accelerates into a bloody exploration of … Read more