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When Thomas Blacker brings seven‑year‑old Gloria Santos from the El Paso barrio to Chicago, he turns her into a refined, educated young woman in his stately home. For more than two decades she lives under Blacker’s watchful eye, confined within the walls of his house and allowed only rare visits to his meticulously kept garden. As Gloria matures, she becomes increasingly aware of the injustice of her situation. Facing the man who shaped her life and a world that feels both alien and oppressive, she wrestles with the boundaries between love and obsession, gratitude and obligation, and ultimately between betrayal and self‑preservation. In *The House of Forgetting*, Benjamin Saenz presents a haunting psychological drama that follows Gloria’s search for identity and explores what it truly means to have freedom.
First publish date: 1997
Genre: Thriller/Psychological Thriller
Authors: Benjamin Alire Sáenz
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