![]() ![]() The second is that the colony is on the same lake where the main character suffered trauma while camping with as part of Brownie troop. The first is that our main character has been accepted as a Resident at an artists’ colony in the woods, where she can write her novel and live among other artists. ![]() ![]() The story has two threads through which our main character confronts her identity. It is a story about identity: how finding it requires you to acknowledge your past as well as live in the present how it needs to be defended against the pressure to be normal and what it means truly to meet yourself. It is a powerful description of what it means to live inside your own head, aware that others see you as odd, aware that you are odd, knowing that a past you don’t normally allow yourself to remember has damaged you, that you are tethered to the world everyone else lives in only by the love of the wife you’ve chosen to leave behind so you can live in your own thoughts long enough to write your novel and then discovering how difficult your thoughts are to live with. ![]() “The Resident”, the seventh story in “Her Body And Other Parties” by Carmen Maria Machado. ![]()
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