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Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress |
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Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress is enough to convince loving parents never to leave their children in the tender care of a baby sitter again. Thylias Moss's memoir begins when she is 5 and a family with an older girl moves into the apartment downstairs. The girl, Lytta, becomes Thylias's baby sitter, and over the course of several years her propensity for cruelty blossoms into a full-fledged reign of terror culminating in young Thylias's rape. Though she never tells anyone of the abuse, its effects have already begun to poison her life: "Evil, presumably the only product of hell, perhaps it is like a virus, but given what certain strains of virus can do, given the way these viruses can completely possess (and usually ravage) their hosts ... then a virus actually becomes a possible model of God." She goes on to add, "From what appears evil emerges the best established symbol of goodness." And indeed, though Thylias Moss recognizes the terrible evil that was visited upon her and its destructive aftermath, she also realizes that she wouldn't be who she is now--an award-winning poet, a wife, a mother--if not for what she experienced then. Moss's memoir is often grim yet through it all runs a steady undercurrent of hope. "Joy is too necessary to abandon," she writes, and in this story of a difficult life overcome, the author is as good as her word. --Margaret Prior
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