‘The Woman in Me’ has been marketed, in today’s regrettable parlance, as a once-silenced woman finding her voice, using it, and reclaiming her narrative. And there is truth to that.
It’s a Southern Gothic for the Instagram age, its recurring motifs abuse, alcoholism, mental illness, suicide, transgressive thoughts and desires, all delivered simply and superficially. Only Britney’s rage — understandable, justifiable, but still a mystery to her at age 41 — vibrates off the page. After Emma Jean’s baby dies at three days old, her husband — Britney’s grandfather June — sends his grieving wife to an asylum, ‘where she was put on lithium,’ Britney writes.
She runs barefoot along hot asphalt, black tar sticking to her feet. She sleeps in the same bed as her brother, five years older, until she is in the sixth grade and her mother puts a stop to it. She loses her virginity at 14 and, when her mother finds out, she forces Britney to pick up trash all over the neighborhood, a none-too-subtle punishment.
Britney seems to have never had any real friends. She suspects she is a very bad person and deserves all the terrible things that happen to her. She doesn’t see how she is responsible for many of them but believes she may be enacting a self-fulfilling prophecy. Remember the 2008 incident at her Los Angeles mansion, a SWAT team called after a distraught Britney locked herself and her baby son Jayden in a bathroom?
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