Although she is older than the writer, Emerence is much stronger. The writer is a public figure Emerence is secretive and will not let anyone into her flat. Emerence, all physicality, is anti-intellectual. The writer, married to another writer, lives a life of the mind. Emerence disdains the Church and all people in positions of power. The writer, the story’s narrator, is both politically active and religious. Her novel The Door tells the story of the relationship between a woman writer and her housekeeper, Emerence. The shadowy spaces between those limits makes fertile ground for fiction, given the right kind of writer. Who knows what strange chemistry brings and binds two people together? When it comes to love and friendship, there are limits to how well we can know another person.
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