I'll take you there.

Author: Joyce Carol Oates (USA)
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Publish Date: 2005-09-09
Features: A new work by National Book Award-winning author and #1 best-selling female writer for The New York Times, Joyce Carol Oates. Oates' precise and vivid writing is almost magical. — Jeanne Morrows Oates can express the emotions of a place and the turbulent state of the human soul with clarity. She pushes human experience to the edge of normalcy, allowing waves of madness and mystery to surge in. — Donna Seaman, The Booklist Where I'm Going is a novel exploring female experiences and psychology. The author uses the technique of first-person inner monologue to depict the journey of a female college student from the physical to the spiritual. The girl in the book seems to have no name. She lost her mother shortly after birth and has lived in a loveless environment ever since. After entering college, she joins a sorority in search of sisterhood but is eventually expelled. She falls in love with a graduate student in philosophy and becomes entangled in a hopeless and pathological relationship, finally heartbrokenly leaving the man. Later, she retreats to writing. She hears that her deceased father is still alive but critically ill and wishes to see her, so she drives alone to that distant and mysterious place.