Burial Rites

Hannah Kent 2013

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
historical loss literary fiction injustice

Our Take

Based on the last woman executed in Iceland. Kent writes Agnes Magnusdottir with such fierce interiority that the known ending becomes unbearable. A story about being seen too late, about the stories we tell about women who refuse to be small.

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