Although there is no spider in this story by Mariana Enriquez, the Argentinian protagonist is trapped in a web of her own making. Marrying “impetuously” at a young age, she finds herself trapped in a relationship with a nagging, controlling man she hates. When the couple go on a trip into the wilds of Paraguay with her psychic cousin, he also proves to be dangerously naïve and impractical. The morning after a dinner conversation involving mystical experiences and unexplained disappearances, she wakes to find her problem solved. Themes include marriage, submission vs. assertiveness, political injustice and violence, the supernatural.
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