Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one’s family ever justified? Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it? My Life as a Rat follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older brothers. In a succession of vividly recalled episodes Violet contemplates the circumstances of her life as the initially beloved youngest child of seven Kerrigan children who inadvertently “informs” on her brothers, setting into motion their arrests and convictions and her own long estrangement. Arresting and poignant, My Life as a Rat traces a life of banishment from a family—banishment from parents, siblings, and the Church—that forces Violet to discover her own identity, to break the powerful spell of family, and to emerge from her long exile as a “rat” into a transformed life.
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Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates, também conhecida como "JCO" (nasceu dia 16 de junho de 1938), é uma escritora americana. É autora de algumas das obras de literatura mais significativas da atualidade. Agraciada com os prêmios norte-americanos National Book Award e o The Pen/Malamud Award for Excelllence in Shoort Fiction, é membro da Academia Americana de Artes e Letras e titular de cátedra na Universidade de Princeton, Nova Jersey, onde leciona desde 1978.
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