The Mount by Carol Emshwiller
A surreal fable in which an alien species keeps humans as domestic companions, transforming ordinary household life into a charged arena of power, desire, and resistance; the narrative follows one captured human as she adapts to strange customs, negotiates tenderness and control with her captors, and slowly asserts a complicated selfhood. Blending dark humor, lyricism, and unsettling satire, the book interrogates gender roles, colonial domination, and the thin line between care and captivity, forcing readers to rethink who is civilized and who is prey.
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- Published
- 2002
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- 192 pages
- Original Language
- English
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