Not diminished Not deprived

The ache isn't there.Not as an idea. As an inventory. For the first time in twenty-two years, Matilda wakes up and her body isn't bracing for anything.NOT DIMINISHED, NOT DEPRIVED moves between two timelines: the winter she finally sits down to write the truth, and the marriage she spent decades not naming. Before, she was queen one week and garbage the next, adored and then keeping score she had ...