The Jailing of Cecelia Capture
A School, Fiction, Literary Fiction book. Truly amazing meta-fiction done by indigenous author Janet Campbell Hale. The novel focuses on Cecelia Capture and her...
Cecelia Capture Welles, and Indian law student and mother of two, is jailed on her thirtieth birthday for drunk driving. Held on an old welfare fraud charge, she reflects back on her life on the reservation in Idaho, her days as and unwed mother in San Francisco, her marriage to a white liberal, and her decision to return to college. This mixed inheritance of ambition and despair brings her to the brink of suicide.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 201 pages
- ISBN: 9780394543277 / 394543270
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I read this novel years ago and liked it. I liked it the second time as well, but I realizd I'd missed so much of the point of this novel the first time around. This is a depressing story and I hate to admit that I have anything in common with the narrator, but I understood her desperation. This is a chick novel; an ADULT Woman novel.... Takes on beauty and aging and assimilation but in a heavy-handed fashion. I also didn't find the quality in the prose that other readers have. The narrative voice just wasn't compelling, so I shut things down @ 100 (out of 200) pages in. In my mind, The Bluest Eye is same themes, better book. Truly amazing meta-fiction done by indigenous author Janet Campbell Hale. The novel focuses on Cecelia Capture and her struggle to assimilate into dominate, white culture throughout her childhood and into her adult life.Arrested on her 30th birthday for drunk driving in San Francisco, while in her jail cell, she looks back on her childhood...
