That we end up hurting the ones we never would want to in the process. At the same time, Suri describes the ways in which we can be sure of what we want, of who we want.
How when we love someone, we know exactly what to say to wound them. In What Souls Are Made Of Suri does not shy away from the ways Catherine and Heathcliff hurt each other. How even apart, they think of their memories and the ways in which they speak to each other. Furthermore, it solidifies the ways in which they cannot escape each other. This simple narration choice solidifies these characters in our minds and hearts. Beginning with an almost external POV looking inwards, What Souls Are Made Of is dual POV but also like they’re speaking to each other. Suri is able to not only captivate Heathcliff’s feeling of Otherness, but also this kindred spirit that both he and Catherine share. TW: abusive family dynamics, physical abuse, emotional abuse, child endangerment, racism, mentions of slavery, parental death, alcoholismįrom the beginning, I was captivated by What Souls Are Made Of. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.)
(Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher. For how can they ever be together, when loving each other-and indeed, loving themselves-is as good as throwing themselves into poverty and death? Review Deep down in their souls, they can feel they are the same.īut when Catherine’s father dies and the household’s treatment of Heathcliff only grows more cruel, their relationship becomes strained and threatens to unravel.
Catherine knows she must mold herself into someone pretty and good and marriageable, even though it might destroy her spirit.Īs they occasionally flee into the moors to escape judgment and share the half-remembered language of their unknown kin, Catherine and Heathcliff come to find solace in each other. Her father is grooming her for a place in proper society, and that’s all that matters. SummaryĪs the abandoned son of a Lascar-a sailor from India-Heathcliff has spent most of his young life maligned as an “outsider.” Now he’s been flung into an alien life in the Yorkshire moors, where he clings to his birth father’s language even though it makes the children of the house call him an animal, and the maids claim he speaks gibberish.Ĭatherine is the younger child of the estate’s owner, a daughter with light skin and brown curls and a mother that nobody talks about. So when I saw Tasha Suri’s retelling of it, What Souls Are Made Of, I knew I had to re-visit them! Keep reading this book review for my full thoughts. I wasn’t sure if I understood the relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff. It’s been so long since I read Wuthering Heights, but I remember thinking of it with a bit of confusion.
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