Last week I reviewed What Strange Creatures by Emily Arsenault. This week I'm reviewing the same author's fifth novel, The Evening Spider . I've read and reviewed all of the authors novels so far, and there's a sixth coming next year. This novel has some supernatural overtones which is a departure from her previous novels. Initially I was really on the fence with this one. Its depiction of a 'hysterical woman,' who is really a woman who doesn't conform to the contemporary social norms of her time, and as a result is committed to an asylum in the 1880's for the convenience of her husband, is a story that is disturbing and difficult for me to read. This story line is coupled with the foreboding and foreshadowing in the present time story line that implies that the modern day woman may be headed the same way. However, as it turns out the former woman is committed for far more sinister reasons than her non-conformity to social norms of the day. In...
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