Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Wandering Along the Path; Right Speech
I just finished a novel by a writer I've followed for a few decades, Rafael Yglesias. I'm a great fan of his book and screenplay, "Fearless". This new book is "The Wisdom of Perversity" and it is a powerful evocation of three people who were molested by a pedophile as children, and many decades later reunite to expose him. It's a disturbing book, but not at all voyeristic. The graphic scenes are nightmarish and horrifying. Evidently, Yglesias experienced a molestation himself as a child, and there is no flinching from the consequences. This is a brave book, and he has kept careful control of his subject, so that there is no pleasure to be gained by reading it, only increased empathy for children put through such life altering experiences. Would I recommend this book? Not for the pleasure of reading, but for the novel's ability to show a world where powerful adults alter forever the lives of their victims. I feel I now better understand what such acts do to the child, and the shame and secrecy that that child carries on his back forever.
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