The pink institution ebook

Apr 08, Desiree rated it did not like it. To call it a novel seems like more than a stretch. Nov 30, Rat rated it it was amazing Shelves: southerns-and-westerns , poetry , transgressive. Feb 25, Paige rated it it was amazing Shelves: Bodies, sweetmeats, generational trauma, depression like a hug, a gentle choking.

Mar 19, jelly rated it liked it. I would give this more like 3. I want to explain why There were passages that moved me so, the language.. Poetry interwoven with prose. I think any woman should read this book about generations of women growing up in the South during a trying time in American history. It gives a unique spin on the travesties of post Civil war America, the patriarchal world in which women are often imprisoned.

Almost too poetic, that it lost some of the narrative for me. But overall, a real gem of a read. Saterstrom definitely has a voice. I want to read more. May 12, Bill rated it really liked it Shelves: literary. Impressions of Horror Saterstrom, Selah The Pink Institution. The girls are born into poverty, live in rot, are uneducated, ab Impressions of Horror Saterstrom, Selah The girls are born into poverty, live in rot, are uneducated, abused, and confused, but somehow survive most of them into adult lives of poverty, alcohol, ignorance and abuse.

Few rise above the subhuman level of a community that makes Yoknapatawpha county look aristocratic. Much of the description focuses on body products and body functions, from sexuality all kinds: marital, extramarital, childhood, rape, prostitution, masturbation, homosexual to vomit, spit, piss, blood and poop. The mood is so unrelentingly bleak that a reader must wonder what the point is.

Are we supposed to be shocked? Is it a sociological display about the unbreakable transgenerational cycle of poverty and ignorance? On the plus side, this pointless excursion is presented in an extremely interesting way, with non-traditional typography, suggesting, for example, that the large spaces between words represent horrific experiences that cannot be articulated. Included are poems, pictures, and quotations, all of which contribute to the impressionistic mood.

The genre of such storytelling is the category of prose poetry, I would say. The book itself is very handsomely constructed. Overall, as an exemplar of prose poetry cum novel, the work is very successful. Jan 27, Peter rated it it was amazing Shelves: recently-read. This book was a surprising find when I first read it and all the pieces I've read from Saterstrom since then particularly in Sleeping Fish have maintained the same high level of originality.

Well worth your time. View 1 comment. Oct 12, Tara rated it it was ok. This short novel felt far too contrived, deliberate, and strange, to the point where there was no way I could identify with any of the characters, and I have no doubt in my mind that that's precisely what Saterstrom was trying to do.

While I appreciated her brazen layout decisions, emphasizing the importance of the way the text is organized, including small pictures and odd graphics, it didn't work for me. Dec 07, Visha rated it really liked it. If you like highly fragmented lyric fiction, check this out. If you don't, stay away. I love the Southernness of this story, the way Saterstrom tracks the generations through the females, the constant pulling together and breaking apart.

Jan 27, Kristen Ringman rated it it was ok. I loved the end parts of this book which were in first person narrative, but most of the beginning and middle in third person were just too jumbled for me to care about the characters at all Oct 23, Constance rated it really liked it. A visceral blend of poetry and prose, 1st and 3rd person, that loosely follows four generations of women's lives in the brutal, poverty-stricken post-Civil War South to the present day. Stark, beautiful, disturbing, and unique May 13, Kae Cheatham rated it liked it.

Sort of a shorthand Faulkner look at southern families and lineage. It was often troublesome both in subject and style, but a compelling read. Jul 05, Lisa J. An amazing example of how a writer can provoke so much emotion and thought with so few words! The text is intimidating at first, but just dive in and experience it! Aug 01, Melissa rated it liked it Shelves: reads. Poetic, sort of autobiography. In a multigenerational family saga that captures the rich beauty and passionate despair of the land and its inhabitants, The Pink Institution is a riveting, visceral novel written in a style that elegantly unites poetic prose with historic photographs and texts.

It is also a testament to the legacy that war, violence, abuse, and poverty have wrought upon the Deep South. As we follow four generations of determined and relentless Mississippi women from their run-down, post-Civil War plantations to their modern-day trailer parks, the impoverished decay of the Deep South expresses itself through their bloodlines in a haunting reenactment of the past.

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