One of the main plots is about a battered woman. She cannot see a way out of her marriage, so she falls deeper and deeper into depression and drug use.
At the end of the novel, she is in a bad part of town looking for drugs, and she goes to the house of a friend of a friend. This man, a drug dealer, tries to rape her, but she gains the courage (or years of rage at being abused finally surfaces) and she kills the man.
She tells her husband, certain he will turn her in; her husband sees now that he has perfect control over his wife, knowing that she killed someone; they flee together so she will not be caught.
It ends with them at the beach, in a cheap motel, drifting to sleep. She is fantasizing about hiding enough money to finally leave her husband, too, and start a new life.
Does this sound somewhat satisfying? I like ambiguous endings ... which are usually not satisfying.
At the end of the novel, she is in a bad part of town looking for drugs, and she goes to the house of a friend of a friend. This man, a drug dealer, tries to rape her, but she gains the courage (or years of rage at being abused finally surfaces) and she kills the man.
She tells her husband, certain he will turn her in; her husband sees now that he has perfect control over his wife, knowing that she killed someone; they flee together so she will not be caught.
It ends with them at the beach, in a cheap motel, drifting to sleep. She is fantasizing about hiding enough money to finally leave her husband, too, and start a new life.
Does this sound somewhat satisfying? I like ambiguous endings ... which are usually not satisfying.