Winter Love

I heard of this through McNally Editions and from the Lost Ladies of Lit podcast (one of my favorites! Everyone should listen to them) and it sounded fascinating. And it is very good. It's also hard to read sometimes. Mara is trapped in a marriage she wants out of. Red (Bettina) has had issues with her own relationships in the past, but also wants to be inconspicuous. These two young women (Red is only almost twenty at the beginning) are both terrible but you also kind of root for them. Red is abusive in the narrative present and in her recollections of Mara. Mara is flighty and doesn't know how to handle things. I'm glad I read this, and I would recommend it, but it's hard going at some points.