The Cassandra

by Sharma Shields | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 1250197414 Global Overview for this book
Registered by BookBirds of Somewhere in the USA, -- Wild Released somewhere in USA -- USA on 12/2/2018
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Journal Entry 1 by BookBirds from Somewhere in the USA, -- Wild Released somewhere in USA -- USA on Sunday, December 2, 2018
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Journal Entry 2 by BookBirds at Somewhere in the USA, -- Wild Released somewhere in USA -- USA on Friday, May 10, 2019
I'm a Sharma Shields fan after reading 'The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac', so was eagerly awaiting her next book. Here it is! I've always been aware of the Cassandra mythology - those who can see the future, whether through premonition or (or on a realistic level - logic itself), but these Cassandras never have anyone listen to what they are saying. Mildred has visions of what will happen to others from an early age and of course people call her Mad Mildred. She escapes her demanding and overbearing mother and sister to work at the mysterious Hanford site, working as a secretary for those who are working on the atomic bombs. Of course not many people at Hanford knew they were working on atomic bombs, many people doing small parts to keep things secretive. Even Mildred's visions aren't distinct. Things certainly aren't easy for Mildred, so she greatly appreciates this newfound freedom of a job, even sending her paychecks back to her family. Even if this book wasn't about atomic bombs and WWII, the book would be very dark. Mildred's story is dark, as the stories of many women throughout time. I'm not sure how relatable Mildred is to most readers in the present day, but there were hints of sentences that told me that Sharma Shields really understood the psychology of what Mildred might have went through in her trapped situation in the 1940s before she went to Hanford. I could tell Shields really knew Mildred. But then Mildred really goes off the rails and things that her sister and mother say later in the book make me question how reliable of a narrator Mildred is. So Mildred is relatable up to a point. In the end, the book seemed to be more about Mildred than her deadly premonitions, which is something that the dehumanized Mildred needed anyway but I'm not sure what the premonitions meant for the book, or even Japan, or even those at the Hanford site. But it's the dark story of the Cassandra all along: those premonitions were all for nothing.

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