An American heroine

Joyce Carol Oates has chosen to make his heroine a comic book character. Abandoned by a mother with dementia in the marshes of the Adirondacks, Mudgirl is miraculously saved and placed in a docking miserable family. This is where the Quakers quun couple discovers and chooses to replace ladopter their daughter Meredith Ruth Neukirchen, died at 4 years. It is raised with love with books and soon proves featuring superior intelligence. It accomplishes a brilliant academic career. Chapter headings announce fights and events in which she faces throughout her life. The narrative alternates between past and present, real facts and fantasies plunging the reader into the universe monstrous tales, dune America in abject poverty but also in the context of political and ideological struggles that tear intellectual spheres during the first Iraq war. A powerful novel that one can not forget the female character, generous and strong.