The Tattooed Girl

By Joyce Carol Oates

Subjects: American fiction, Racism, Ethnic relations, Young women, Abused women, Recluses as authors, Jews, fiction, Fiction, suspense, Adult child abuse victims, Authors, fiction, Young women, fiction, Recluses, Fiction, Hermits, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Love-hate relationships, Fiction, psychological, Authors, Antisemitism

Description: Celebrated but reclusive author Joshua Seigl must hire an assistant due to failing health. But he doesn't expect Alma Busch -- an attractive woman with bizarre tattoos covering much of her body. Naivete and anti-Semitism clash in this tragedy of thwarted erotic desire.