Burial Rites
Hannah Kent • 2013
Devastation Rating
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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