In this segment, the actress and writer Dolores Brandon reads part one of chapter six, “The Young Bride and the Other Girl”, from Marguerite Young’s epic novel Miss Mcintosh, My Darling. Brandon’s captivating reading style contributes to the hypnotic state provided by Young’s prose.

In this chapter we hear about a woman caught between dream and reality. Who’s awake and who’s dreaming? It’s “too late to forget, for now she must remember”. Through marriage, aging and giving birth, we discover a woman who plunges into questions of existence.

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