«Dear Husband» by Joyce Carol Oates is her attempt to get inside the head of Andrea Yates, who killed her children in a much-publicized case in Texas. The narrator’s ramblings are a predictable mishmash, evidence of battered wife syndrome and born-again lunacy: «Jesus said to me, It is true that you are a bad mother but there is a way: ‘If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out.’ » Dramatic, intensely rendered, and always provocative «Dear Husband» provides an unsettling and fascinating look into the mysterious heart of America.

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