My Life as a Rat - by Joyce Carol Oates (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This novel "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"--Dust jacket flap.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>"A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant. You think your parents love you but is it <em>you </em>they love, or the child who is <em>theirs?</em>" --Joyce Carol Oates, <em>My Life as a Rat</em></strong></p><p>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? </p><p><em>My Life as a Rat </em>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. </p><p>Arresting and poignant, <em>My Life as a Rat </em>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. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? </strong></p><p><strong>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?</strong></p><p><em>My Life as a Rat</em> 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 long estrangement.</p>Arresting and poignant, <em>My Life as a Rat</em> traces a life cast away from family--and 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 banishment as a "rat" into a transformed life.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Oates's novel adroitly touches on race, loyalty, misogyny, and class inequality while also telling a moving story with a winning narrator. This book should please her fans and win her new ones."--<em>Publishers Weekly</em><br>
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