num_pages: 120
description: It seems there is no genre of writing Marie NDiaye will not make her own. Asked to write a memoir she turned in this paranoid fantasia of rising floodwaters walking corpses eerie depictions of her very own parents and the incessant reappearance of women in green. Just who are these green women? They are powerful (one was NDiayes disciplinarian grade-school teacher). They are mysterious (one haunts a house like a ghost and may be visible only to the author). They are seductive (one stole a friends husband). And they are unbearably personal (one is NDiayes own mother). They are all in their way aspects of their creator at once frightening menacing and revealing of everything submerged within the consciousness of this singular literary talent. A courageous strikingly honest and unabashedly innovative self-portrait NDiayes kaleidoscopic look at the women in green is a revelation to us all  about how we form our identities how we discover those things we repress and how our obsessions become us.
language: English
title: Self-Portrait in Green
publisher: Two Lines Press