Sweetsir A novel Author:Helen Yglesias In this thoroughly riveting novel Helen Yglesias presents a portion of American life laid bare. As she unveils the private brutalities of a marriage and portrays a woman who is pushed to the very edge of her endurance, she looks starkly at a moment of orror that many people never face. Yet, in exploring the nuances of tis turbulent relationship... more », she creates in her readers the same compelling sense of identifiction with Sally Sweetsir that the heroine herself tries to impart to the jury who will try her for murder: "I, Sally Sweetsire, alleged murderer, am a woman much like you, loving a man much like you, in a mariage much like yours. Ours went over the edge, but what happened to us cold have happened to any of you...« less