What I'm Reading: Mrs. March

I know what you're thinking.  Let me start by saying that this book has absolutely nothing to do with the book I reviewed last week. I'm just on a thing this year where I'm reading books that somehow relate to the current month or holiday.  For example - books with the name of the month in the title.   Having said that...

Mrs.March by Virginia Feito is an intriguing, twisted, and dark psychological drama.  In the world of unreliable narrators - this main character might just top the list.  

Married to a well-known author whose latest book is all the rage - Mrs. March is obsessed with appearances and her status.  She believes herself to be admired and well respected.  Until the day the local bakery owner comments on the similarities between Mrs. March and the main character of her husband's best-selling novel. A character who happens to be an ugly, unlovable prostitute.  That's where things begin to go horribly wrong.

Mrs. March is a deeply disturbed woman, and as her story progresses, she becomes increasingly unstable.  Being inside her head is an upsetting place to find yourself.  She is at times anxious, terrified, depressed, angry, delusional, and paranoid. 

Is everyone whispering behind her back and laughing at her? Is there an infestation of cockroaches in her bathroom? Is her husband a murderer? Or is it all paranoid delusions? I'm still not one hundred percent sure what was real and what just took place in her disturbed mind. 

Much of the details of this story are ambiguous.  Which, for me, only added to the mystery of things. The time period seems to be somewhere in the mid-20th century, but other clues hint that it's probably the 80s or 90s. Mrs. March is only ever referred to as just that- "Mrs. March". We never learn her first name until the very end of the book. 

Mrs. March is a well-written novel that takes you on a mind twisting journey and leaves you doubting what is real and what is only in the mind.

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