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Set in 1973, when the concept of domestic violence barely existed, Second Sight is the haunting story of one family's web of violence and a woman's will to survive. Stoic Gabrielle Bissonette and Valley, her vulnerable sister-in-law, become close as they negotiate the increasing instability of Robert, Gabrielle's brother.
A decade later, in journal entries woven through the gripping narrative, Gabrielle struggles to understand the tragedy she has survived and discovers the strength and forgiveness that grant her 'second sight.'.
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Second sight
1997, Calyx Books, Consortium Book Sales and Distribution [distributor]
in English
0934971560 9780934971560
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Gabrielle Bissonette, a hunter, is a character of uncommon depth and determination. Her way of life intrudes upon what has traditionally been male territory. Rickey Gard Diamond creates an extraordinary heroine, one who redefines what it means to be fully human. She has the strength and courage to discover "second sight," reclaiming painful memories, and seeing them anew in her quest for both responsibility and new direction.
Gabrielle returns us to 1973, when family violence was still largely unchallenged, and Vietnam's violence was radically dividing American families and communities. Like today, it was a time of changing perceptions, with sexual and economic differences, power, knowledge and the environment at stake.
Gabrielle struggles to untangle her ten-year silence. Her story is complex, woven of many threads. Caught in a web of violence, along with her older brother, Robert, and Valley, his young bride, she wrestles with memories of hunting and vegetarianism, the nature of violence and definitions of victim, the links between local storytelling and literature, between rural and academic dialects, the impact of Ernest Hemingway's work versus the invisibility of women's.
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