Siri Hufstedt

As a brief addition to the comments about 'The Blindfold,' I downloaded from Amazon the first chapter of Hufstedt's non-fiction book about the Shaking Woman--which includes the description of her neurological problems. The details of the problems she had with her migraines are reflected exactly in the problems of Iris Vegan, the protagonist of the novel. One of the sections in the non-fiction book describes her stay in a hospital for patients with neurological problems, and the novel recreates that description in considerable detail, down to the derogatory comments about the doctor who was supposed to be the expert. Well, many first novels are essentially autobiographical...but I was interested to see how willing she was to show just how autobiographical it was.