In the seven feverishly unsettling works that compose DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense , Joyce Carol Oates focuses on the inner lives of vulnerable girls and women, some victimized, others provoked--by deep emo-tional unrest--to commit violence against others.
In the title story, a precocious eleven-year-old is in thrall to an older male relative--the mysterious, attractive black sheep of the family--and climbs into his sky-blue Chevy to be driven to an uncertain.
In the seven feverishly unsettling works that compose DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense , Joyce Carol Oates focuses on the inner lives of vulnerable girls and women, some victimized, others provoked--by deep emo-tional unrest--to commit violence against others
