She imagined such a woman as a young child. ” - AmazonĪfter her losing her mother when she was just a toddler and having a stepmother who never wanted kids, Amanda wanted someone to love her always and never leave. Whatever the case, as the violence of her erratic behavior increases, Amanda knows that she must act to put her life right, or see it destroyed.
A book on demon possession suggests that the figure on the shore could be the demon Naamah, known to scholars of the Kabbalah as the second wife of Adam, who stole into his dreams and tricked him into fathering her child. The new voice in Amanda’s head, the one that tells her to steal things and talk to strange men in bars, is strange and frightening, and Amanda struggles to wrest back control of her life. At night she dreams of a beautiful woman with pointed teeth on the shore of a blood-red sea. She starts smoking again, and one night for no reason, without even the knowledge that she’s doing it, she burns her husband with a cigarette. Amanda-a successful architect in a happy marriage-finds her life going off kilter by degrees. A memo to her boss that’s replaced by obscene insults. “A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment.
0 kommentar(er)
