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Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein

 Study for Obedience 

By Sarah Bernstein 

#Shortlisted for Booker Prize 2023


Published Year: 2023 

Page count : 105 pages

Medium Used: Kindle PW 

Genre : Psychological Fiction, Suspense,Good Prose, 2024-read. 

Rating : 5/5 




Eerie. Ominous. The main character comes off as a self proclaimed masochist. She tells that all her life, since her childhood, she has tried to please people and be obedient to all their wishes and psychic desires. It felt,from her story, like she could perceive the desires of their souls through some psychic ability. But always she ended up being abused and abandoned like a stranger, one who cannot mingle with them and be accepted. She subjugates her opinions and thoughts for the benefit of others as we see but she is still frowned at - i haven't understood why this must be so. It's strange and uncanny.


 The prose is good but the sentences in some places are so long, I couldn't follow what she was trying to convey. I had to read each of these sentences twice or thrice for a better understanding. The main character moves to a new town in Northern country [unknown where to ] to take care of her brother whose wife and kids just left him. Since her arrival, bizarre things happen to animals and eventually her brother also falls sick.. is she a witch? Or is she a spiritually advanced soul that can control and impact the thoughts and actions of those around her? 


It got me glued and is surreal how the narrative took a turn into the spiritual and hypothetical from a normal narration. Enjoyed this !




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