The Gravedigger's Daughter
The Tattooed Girl
Mudwoman
…the girl is transformed, over the course of the novel, from a virtual blank slate crudely scribbled upon, first by her brutish father and brothers, then by an abusive boyfriend, into something of an earth mother.
Books The Tattooed Girl
- Author
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Joyce Carol Oates
- Year
- 2003
- Publisher
- Ecco Press
Caroline Fraser
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It may be that The Tattooed Girl says less about America than it does about the stranglehold of certain conventions and cultural standards on American fiction.