Word: reva
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pancake's world, solace in love or other human contact is race. Lovers fail to understand each other, and sex is often distant an cold. Families are frequently pathological or simply nonexistent. In "The Mark," the woman Reva, having lost both her parents at once, marries a dull, insensitive man whom she ends up despising. She tries to hold on to shattered family and love by continuing an incestuous relationship with her brother Clinton, dreaming of him coming to her "not in his boatman's clothes, but as a naked Indian hiding in the pawpaw tunnels. "The writing is lyrical...