Dark, cutting, and coursed through with bright flashes of humour,
crystalline imagery, and razor-sharp detail, I Become a Delight to My
Enemies is a gut-wrenchingly powerful, breathtakingly beautiful
meditation on the violence and shame inflicted on the female body and
psyche.
An experimental fiction, I Become a Delight to My Enemies uses many
different voices and forms to tell the stories of the women who live in
an uncanny Town, uncovering their experiences of shame, fear, cruelty,
and transcendence. Sara Peters combines poetry and short prose vignettes
to create a singular, unflinching portrait of a Town in which the lives
of girls and women are shaped by the brutality meted upon them and by
their acts of defiance and yearning towards places of safety and
belonging. Through lucid detail, sparkling imagery and illumination,
Peters' individual characters and the collective of The Town leap
vividly, fully formed off the page. A hybrid in form, I Become a
Delight to My Enemies is an awe-inspiring example of the exquisite
force of words to shock and to move, from a writer of exceptional talent
and potential.
