Private Rites : Discussion Thread

[Trisha]

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, centering three sisters navigating queer love and loss in a drowning world

It’s been raining for a long time now, so long that the land has reshaped itself and arcane rituals and religions are creeping back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene, and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their father dies. An architect as cruel as he was revered, his death offers an opportunity for the sisters to come together in a new way. In the grand glass house they grew up in, their father’s most famous creation, the sisters sort through the secrets and memories he left behind, until their fragile bond is shattered by a revelation in his will.

More estranged than ever, the sisters’ lives spin out of control: Irene’s relationship is straining at the seams; Isla’s ex-wife keeps calling; and cynical Agnes is falling in love for the first time. But something even more sinister might be unfolding, something related to their mother’s long-ago disappearance and the strangers who have always seemed unusually interested in the sisters’ lives. Soon, it becomes clear that the sisters have been chosen for a very particular purpose, one with shattering implications for their family and their imperiled world.

[Trisha]

2 loooong chapters - omg lol / 27% or so

(view spoiler)[ this one is weird so far

the over sexualization of one sister is just - bleh.

the suicide ideation and the stories about the mom are just so sad. but you have to wonder about the dad, did he work to make her unsteady? because he was having an affair?

I'm not sure where this story is going so far. I don't feel like the water rising and the horror of the world going sideways like that is really apparent in the story yet. (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha]

5 chapters / 51%

this one is still not really grabbing me
(view spoiler)[ so wow, the father left her the house
the tension between them makes me sad but it really seems like it's more what the father did
makes me wonder what he did to the mom.

I like that we're getting a better sense of the horrible way the world is and yet they are still going to work. the woman shoving her face into the glass was a bit unsettling. (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha]

and done

(view spoiler)[ ugh, what was that ending? the people coming out, the fighting in the water
that was so weird right at the end (hide spoiler)]