![]() ![]() Deep down in their souls, they can feel they are the same. As they occasionally flee into the moors to escape judgment and share the half-remembered language of their unknown kin, Catherine and Heathcliff come to find solace in each other. Catherine knows she must mold herself into someone pretty and good and marriageable, even though it might destroy her spirit. ![]() Her father is grooming her for a place in proper society, and that's all that matters. ![]() Catherine is the younger child of the estate's owner, a daughter with light skin and brown curls and a mother that nobody talks about. As the abandoned son of a lascar-a sailor from India-Heathcliff has spent most of his young life maligned as an "outsider." Now he's been flung into an alien life in the Yorkshire moors, where he clings to his birth father's language even though it makes the children of the house call him an animal, and the maids claim he speaks gibberish. Sometimes, lost things find their way home. Two British Indian teens cut off from their heritage find solace in each other in this gothic Wuthering Heights YA remix that subverts the default whiteness of the original text. In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. ![]() About the Book Two lost souls cut off from their heritage find solace in each other in this YA remix of the gothic novel Wuthering Heights. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |