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Posted on 26 Sep 202026 Sep 2020 by Jinghua

Revenge | The Saturday Paper

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‘The novel toys with the frame of a feminist revenge fantasy but Yannie makes an atypical heroine. Her rage is not sexy or witty or glamorous. It’s curdled resentment, sour and hard, obsessive and cracked.’

Read the rest of my review of SL Lim’s Revenge in The Saturday Paper today.

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