Sara Peters (Books)

Sara Peters Books

Sara Peters writes about the complexities of human relationships and the elusive nature of time. Her style is characterized by keen introspection and evocative imagery, drawing readers into the depths of the human psyche. She explores themes of memory, identity, and the search for meaning in a world in flux. Her work resonates with sensitivity and intellectual depth, offering insight into what it means to be alive in the contemporary world.

I Become a Delight to My Enemies

144 pages
6 hours of reading

3.9(286)Add rating

Dark, cutting, and coursed through with bright flashes of humour, crystalline imagery, and razor-sharp detail, I Become a Delight to My Enemies is a gut-wrenchingly powerful, breathtakingly beautiful meditation on the violence and shame inflicted on the female body and psyche. An experimental fiction, I Become a Delight to My Enemies uses many different voices and forms to tell the stories of the women who live in an uncanny Town, uncovering their experiences of shame, fear, cruelty, and transcendence. Sara Peters combines poetry and short prose vignettes to create a singular, unflinching portrait of a Town in which the lives of girls and women are shaped by the brutality meted upon them and by their acts of defiance and yearning towards places of safety and belonging. Through lucid detail, sparkling imagery and illumination, Peters' individual characters and the collective of The Town leap vividly, fully formed off the page. A hybrid in form, I Become a Delight to My Enemies is an awe-inspiring example of the exquisite force of words to shock and to move, from a writer of exceptional talent and potential.