In her new novel “Alice Sadie Celine,” Sarah Blakley-Cartwright imagines a constellation of women and, in placing them in a variety of combinatory friendly, familial, and romantic relationships, reveals how the titles and roles of the relationships themselves – friend, mother, daughter, grandmother, lover – restrict the way each woman understands the other by the predetermined rules of engagement each relationship title inevitably carries with it.
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In her new novel “Alice Sadie Celine,” Sarah Blakley-Cartwright imagines a constellation of women and, in placing them in a variety of combinatory friendly, familial, and romantic relationships, reveals how the titles and roles of the relationships themselves – friend, mother, daughter, grandmother, lover – restrict the way each woman understands the other by the predetermined rules of engagement each relationship title inevitably carries with it.