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“The ‘Black Widow Society’ is a group of women who are assassins. To join, you must want to get rid of your husband. The husbands are usually people who are problematic and violent. It’s a crime novel, but as with Nervous Conditions, if I look at it metaphorically, it’s about getting rid of patriarchy and bringing forth the conversations around gender-based violence. Violence on violence is not the answer, obviously, but what I take from Angela’s narrative—even though she says it’s not that at all for her—is that we need to have these conversations. Especially in South Africa, where the gender-based violence is just insane.” Read more...
