I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness

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The Social Constructs of Womanhood in I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness

The protagonist of Claire Vaye Watkins’s new novel refuses to perform motherhood, wifedom, and womanhood within the strictures of these words. But her refusal calls into question her very character, in others’ eyes and sometimes also her own. If she doesn’t fulfil these roles, what is she?