Review: Pure Genius
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 7, 2013
I struggled to craft this review having been blown away by One Hundred Unfortunate Days. You don't just read this tale, you descend into the thoughts of a mad woman... or is she? By the second paragraph I realized I was reading something very special. It was born of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic gothic tale, "The Yellow Wallpaper," and yet so much powerful. We take a longer journey with Ms. Crowe's protagonist into the darkest corners, closets, and gardens of her life.This is not traditional writing. The mental decline and the breakdown of one woman left me with the feeling that perhaps I was looking through the wrong end of a telescope. I've read that Charlotte Perkins Gilman's works of women's literature paved the way for future writers such as Alice Walker and Sylvia Plath. I like to add Penelope Crowe's name to that highly-regarded and singularly unique list.