I lock my door upon myself

"Wanneer een jonge, onaangepaste Amerikaanse omstreeks 1900 van haar zwerftochten een zwarte minnaar mee terugbrengt, ontstaan er grote problemen met haar man en met de boerenbevolking van de staat New York."
"Written in a painterly style that is utterly compelling, this compact yet powerful novel is perfect for anyone wishing to step into the hypnotic fictional world of Joyce Carol Oates. "A poetic ballad of love and death and martyrdom in a turn-of-the-century small town ..."--The New York Times."@en
"Written in a painterly style that is utterly compelling, this compact yet powerful novel is perfect for anyone wishing to step into the hypnotic fictional world of Joyce Carol Oates. "A poetic ballad of love and death and martyrdom in a turn-of-the-century small town ..."--The New York Times."
"At age seventeen, Calla, a young woman living in upstate New York in the early twentieth century, is married off to a coarse local farmer and forced to live a depressing life, until a chance encounter with an itinerant black water-dowser leads to a passionate, obsessive love affair."