I'm still not even half way through the book and i've been introduced to so many new characters and lives that it's hard to keep track. Everything is connected and it makes me really anxious because I just want to put it all together. It's all there behind the scenes, I just have to make sense of it and figure it out.
"Nine months ago, Phimie had been raped."
"Ashamed, and scared, she told no one. Although a victim, she blamed herself, and the prospect of being exposed to ridicule so horrified her that despair got the better of good judgement."
Seraphim Aethionema White was 16. After she was raped, she found out she was pregnant. She refused to tell anybody even though her family would have helped her all the way. She decided to try and hide it by not eating, wearing baggy clothes, etc. She made it to the last week of her pregnancy without anybody knowing until her body began to do odd things that she could not control. She told her family and made her sister, Celestina drive her to San Francisco, where her sister lives, to deliver the baby. While there, they found that Phimie's blood pressure was sky high and they tried to use drugs to settle it. In the middle of the night she had a seizure and they gave her a cesarion section. She didnt make it but the baby did. Celestina found that she had a lot of hate towards the baby even though she knew it was not the baby's fault.
This book is very overwhelming. It's hard to not feel the pain that the characters feel. I try to put the imagery into a real setting like if it were to happen to me or a friend and its almost depressing and yet i cant stop reading it. It really makes me think how these things really do happen to people every second of every day all around the world and i just dont know about it. It's a perspective i've never seen, but i'm glad i've been exposed to it.
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